Can't Reach wp-admin

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Can't Reach wp-admin

Brendan Jackson

2020年4月19日 01:30

When visiting wp-admin at the link http://ec2-3-16-54-250.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wp-admin, I get the below URL

http://ec2-3-16-54-250.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wp-admin/ec2-3-16-54-250.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fec2-3-16-54-250.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com%2Fwp-admin%2Freauth=1

I am coming from a direct database transfer from localhost to server.

I went into wp-options and changed the option_value in wp_options to reflect that of the current live. See below.

   option_id: 1
 option_name: siteurl
option_value: ec2-3-16-54-250.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com
    autoload: yes

*************************** 2. row ***************************

   option_id: 2
 option_name: home
option_value: ec2-3-16-54-250.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com
    autoload: yes

I just replaced the localhost values, though it seems I've done something incorrectly. I have not installed any url altering plugins or htaccess files, it is a relatively fresh AWS EC2 instance.

I see a lot of issues out there of people failing to reach the wp-admin link, but not this on specifically.

Can you please help?

Topic amazon Wordpress

Category Web

Eduard · Accepted Answer · 2020年4月19日 01:30

When I migrate websites from local to production I sometimes bump in similar situations, my solution is to define the siteurl and home in the wp-config/functions.php

This way it's absolute and you don't rely on database updates.

Narkanister · Accepted Answer · 2020年4月18日 23:33

That’s odd!

Double-check you’ve not accidentally pasted the url twice into the database options table rows (it seems to be duplicated).

Check .htaccess for anything that might cause an odd redirect/rewrite.

You’re doing well .... keep going. AWS deployments are always tricky. But like you I’d rather do it manually - I don’t trust “magic” plugins.

wpnovice · Accepted Answer · 2020年4月18日 17:23

When moving / cloning a site to a new URL, just changing the wp-options option_value is not enough.

The proper way of doing this is to use a wordpress site cloning plugin (lot's of free good ones), such as Duplicator. Do a proper archive and install the site on AWS. It should take care of all the URL issues, and is much faster than you manually trying to fix your install (and may have miss something which will come back at you down the road).

Here is the plugin: https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/

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