Title: wp-login.php?action=postpass redirect problem
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# wp-login.php?action=postpass redirect problem

 *  [mrdavidsparks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrdavidsparks/)
 * (@mrdavidsparks)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-loginphpactionpostpass-redirect-problem/)
 * Hello all. I hope you are well.
 * I have a problem that a user has reported. I haven’t been able to replicate it,
   but here’s the gist:
 * We have a password protected page using normal WordPress page password protection.
   We got the following email from a user:
 * “It seems like the problem is the redirect link after clicking the button is 
   going to the wrong location. It just goes right back to: wp-login.php?action=
   postpass
 * “I attached a fiddler log of the redirects. It happens if i open a chrome instance
   that doesn’t have the password cached (an incognito window will do that). After
   typing the password, it gets stuck in a redirect loop.”
 * Any ideas on how to fix this?
 * Thanks,
    David

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 *  [David Uzelac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daviduzelac/)
 * (@daviduzelac)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-loginphpactionpostpass-redirect-problem/#post-7116126)
 * Hey David, I’m David 😛
 * Have you tried resetting the users password? I would also recommend telling him
   to try a different browser or clear cache/cookies on his local machine.
 * Let me know if any progress is made or if there is a different issue afoot 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [mrdavidsparks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrdavidsparks/)
 * (@mrdavidsparks)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-loginphpactionpostpass-redirect-problem/#post-7116184)
 * Hi David. We are using one-password for all members, that changes from time to
   time. We are using the default WordPress password protection for that page. I
   haven’t had problems logging in myself, and can’t replicate the issue, but have
   had several complaints of the same thing.
 * When I type in my domain url with /wp-login.php?action=postpass I get the redirect
   loop error.
 * Thanks,
 * David
 *  [David Uzelac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daviduzelac/)
 * (@daviduzelac)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-loginphpactionpostpass-redirect-problem/#post-7116188)
 * Have you read this part of the Codex regarding using Password Protection?
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Password_Protection](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Password_Protection)
 * Are you locally hosted or are you paying for hosting?
 *  Thread Starter [mrdavidsparks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrdavidsparks/)
 * (@mrdavidsparks)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-loginphpactionpostpass-redirect-problem/#post-7116194)
 * Reading now.
 * Running off of a VPS server at Godaddy.
 * Thanks,
 * David
 *  [David Uzelac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daviduzelac/)
 * (@daviduzelac)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-loginphpactionpostpass-redirect-problem/#post-7116304)
 * You’re welcome, keep me posted!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [David Uzelac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daviduzelac/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-loginphpactionpostpass-redirect-problem/#post-7116304)
 * Status: not resolved

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