Title: Lost admin access to wordpress
Last modified: September 28, 2022

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# Lost admin access to wordpress

 *  Resolved [deborahwp78](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deborahwp78/)
 * (@deborahwp78)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-admin-access-to-wordpress/)
 * I had a simple installation of WordPress running well.
    Self-hosted, on docker,
   I have terminal access.
 * After I inserted ALLOW_MULTISITE to the config file, it was changed to multisite.
   
   After inserting the multisite configuration script to the .htaccess, I lost it.
 * All plugins were deactivated before it.
 * 1 – I tried to get back to the first install, no result.
    2 – Deleted wordfence
   file, no result 3 – LOGS on wordpress container:
 * [Tue Sep 27 19:01:03.129594 2022] [core:error] [pid 22] [client x.x.x.x:0] AH00124:
   Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration
   error. Use ‘LimitInternalRecursion’ to increase the limit if necessary. Use ‘
   LogLevel debug’ to get a backtrace., referer: [https://theapothecary.app/](https://theapothecary.app/)
 * Since I can’t access the WordPress at all, and even the website is showing:
 *     ```
       Internal Server Error
       The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
   
       Please contact the server administrator at webmaster@localhost to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.
   
       More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
   
       Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) Server at theapothecary.app Port 80
       ```
   
 * This tutorial: [https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-the-internal-server-error-in-wordpress/](https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-the-internal-server-error-in-wordpress/)
 * Is not helpfull since I can’t access my dashboard at all.
 * I also tried to re-install wordpress using different passwords, no result. I 
   then re-installed the container using the same password, since it is connected
   to database and npm, and the .htaccess is clean, only with the code I found here
   on the community, no result.
 * I can’t simply call the hoste, I am self-hosting.
 * Next step is to bring down all the installation the instance and do it all from
   scratch, but I am sure I will get the same trouble the moment I try again to 
   turn it into multisite.
 * Can anyone point me to the problem please?
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by [deborahwp78](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deborahwp78/).
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by [Yui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fierevere/).
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Flost-admin-access-to-wordpress%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-admin-access-to-wordpress/#post-16049461)
 * You need to find out what the _actual_ error is.
 * As you’re running it as a local site, the securitty issues associated with showing
   errors aren’t as bad as they are on a public site, but remember to change this
   back after you’ve finished.
 * You need to edit your wp-config.php file to set this value:
 * `define ('WP_DEBUG', true);`
 * You can also add this if you want to log errors to a file:
 * `define ('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);`
 * This will let you see what the real error is, and when you know that you’ll be
   able to see what is wrong and hopefully fix it.
 *  Thread Starter [deborahwp78](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deborahwp78/)
 * (@deborahwp78)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-admin-access-to-wordpress/#post-16049694)
 * I can’t edit or delete the post, my first time here… I resolved it editing the.
   htaccess.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [deborahwp78](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deborahwp78/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-admin-access-to-wordpress/#post-16049694)
 * Status: resolved

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