Title: WordPress Installation Disaster Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # WordPress Installation Disaster * [esok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esok/) * (@esok) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installation-disaster/) * I think it is very deceptive to claim WordPress is easy to install, because I have found it to be anything but… * At this point, I can’t login into WordPress. When I attempt to login, it goes back to the login screen and asks for the password again. This seems to be a common problem, with few solutions to. That is bad. * I have done everything as was suggested in the login troubleshooter…. [http://codex.wordpress.org/Login_Trouble](http://codex.wordpress.org/Login_Trouble) * Another thing, the directions don’t seem to be geared towards people that are hosting their own website and setup of MySQL. However, I have checked and tested my installs of PHP and MySQL (lastest packages of both), and they both work fine. My web server works fine by itself too. * Of all the software packages I have EVER used, the setup of WordPress has to be about the most freaking annoying. * A key element of the problem, is WordPress gives no errors or indication of what is wrong. A troubleshooting Wizard, would be very helpful for newbies to WordPress. Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installation-disaster/#post-1360450) * > When I attempt to login, it goes back to the login screen and asks for the > password again. This seems to be a common problem, with few solutions to. That > is bad. * That sounds like a faulty install. Have you tried re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a **fresh** download of WordPress? * Are you hosting WP locally or on a remote server? * Thread Starter [esok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esok/) * (@esok) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installation-disaster/#post-1360478) * I’m installing WordPress locally on my own server. So I have all rights and permissions to everything. I have re-copied the WordPress files into the root directory for my web server. I get the same errors. * Either it fails to login, returning to the original login screen or I get an HTTP 404 Not Found. * Interestingly, if recognizes the wrong password. I also checked the MySQL database and everything seems correct. * I have wiped out the tables on my MySQL database and reloaded the files from the downloaded zip a couple of times into my web server’s root directory, per the troubleshooting steps. Yet, back to HTTP 404 Not Found or same wp-login.php page. * I’m loading the files from the downloaded zip 2.9.1. I will try to re-download them from the WordPress site again, though I’m not sure why the downloaded files from WordPress would be corrupt, but at this point I will try anything. * Thread Starter [esok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esok/) * (@esok) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installation-disaster/#post-1360483) * Another interesting thing about the reoccurring login problem, is that if you select the box for “remember me”, that does not work either. The login page will reload anyway. * Thread Starter [esok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esok/) * (@esok) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installation-disaster/#post-1360487) * [http://#.#.#.#/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2F#.#.#.#%2Fwp-admin%2Findex](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installation-disaster/?output_format=md) * Does anybody understand what the above means or why it happens? * #.#.#.# = IP address or my domain (that was modified by me to protect IP/domain) * I noticed the above URL when I get redirected to the same login page. * I type in the user name and password at [http://mydomain.com/wp-login.php](http://mydomain.com/wp-login.php). * Then instead of a login, I get the same login page again, but user name and password. This then shows up in the address box- [http://#.#.#.#/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2F#.#.#.#%2Fwp-admin%2Findex](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installation-disaster/?output_format=md) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installation-disaster/#post-1360575) * I think there’s a server redirection\set up problem going on here. The redirect url shouldn’t have `index` tacked on the end of it. * [ziizii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ziizii/) * (@ziizii) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installation-disaster/#post-1360590) * I feel your pain…. I logged in…logged out….logged back in….logout…went to login back in and wrong password…now back to get a fresh download…for the seventh time!!!! something is wrong here…I am well into my second day of trying to get this thing installed. * Thread Starter [esok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esok/) * (@esok) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installation-disaster/#post-1360616) * I’m with you ZiiZii. I’m not a complete computer idiot and have done my best to read and follow instructions, then read through the troubleshooting steps. This includes “fresh” downloads. * I tried to install Joomla, EVERYTHING WORKED PERFECTLY. Basically I’m moving forward with Joomla, but I’m still curious as to what is the problem with WordPress. Since I have my own server, I can afford to experiment a bit. * I’m very perplexed at this login problem. There seems to be some unknown combination that creates the login problem and nobody has been able to explain it. I wonder if it is the type of unzip software that is being used? The OS does not seem to matter, as I read both Linux and Windows users having the same problem. * ZiiZii what did you use to unzip WordPress? I used peazip, open source file manager and extract tool. That might not be it, but it seems people at WordPress continue to have the login problem, but people can’t figure out why. There just has to be a reason. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installation-disaster/#post-1360617) * Sorry but it looks like a server issue to me. See above. The login url is malformed. * Thread Starter [esok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esok/) * (@esok) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installation-disaster/#post-1360619) * > I think there’s a server redirection\set up problem going on here. The redirect > url shouldn’t have index tacked on the end of it. * Esmi, I agree and I’m studying on why that could be happening. I don’t understand why inputting my user name and password on the WordPress login would redirect me in this way. * Interestingly, if I put NO user name and password and try to login, the SAME thing happens. So NO user name and password, acts the same as if putting in a CORRECT user name and password, which is redirect back to the login page. However it will give an error to the wrong user name and password. * Thread Starter [esok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esok/) * (@esok) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installation-disaster/#post-1360622) * > Sorry but it looks like a server issue to me. See above. The login url is malformed. * I will setup a different web server and see what happens. * Also, the malformed url can be the result of PHP code used by WordPress or the combination of web server and PHP code used. I’m leaning in the direction of WordPress PHP code, since my other PHP programs and Joomla don’t have this problem, but multiple WordPress users do. * Thread Starter [esok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esok/) * (@esok) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installation-disaster/#post-1360623) * I don’t have a .htaccess file, maybe the issue is with WordPress creating or writing to this file. This could be a permission issue and make sense why some people see the problem and other don’t. Will try this out too… * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installation-disaster/#post-1360624) * That shouldn’t be an issue unless you want to use custom permalinks. Out of the box, WP doesn’t rely on .htaccess. Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) The topic ‘WordPress Installation Disaster’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 12 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installation-disaster/#post-1360624) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics