wp-admin produces a 302 redirect to itself

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I’m running WordPress (v3.5.2) in network mode.

Any of the sites which try to access /wp-admin produce a browser error saying there is a redirect loop. A redirect checker tool says the page returns a 302 temporary redirect to the same URL.

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I have uploaded a default .htaccess file and the same thing happens.

In cPanel, I have checked Domains > Redirects, and there is no such redirect listed.

I have renamed /plugins to /plugins2, and the issue remains.

In the wp_options table, the site_URL is set to www.example.com, which is correct. This matches the DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE parameter in wp-config.

Any ideas?

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  1. I ended up uploading fresh copies of /wp-admin & /wp-includes, as well as the wp files in the root / directory, which resolved the problem.

  2. I had this problem as well, it turned out to be a hosting issue with the permissions of some of my files being chmod 0664 and the host not like group to be writable. I changed the files to 0644 and everything worked. There is never a clear solution to this problem, but that may help for people looking for other solutions.

  3. There is a plugin called “change-wp-admin-login” – check that or move it out of the plugins folder temporarily

  4. For me this happened because I set the sitename/hostname to https:// after enabling SSL in Cloudflare. Apparently this is not supported.

    The solution was to revert the sitename/hostname to http:// and use the “Flexible SSL for CloudFlare” addon. The manual is here, but for me it just immediately worked after installation.

    If you can’t revert your sitename/hostname because of the wp-admin redirect issue, you can revert it manually from the command line.

    Use

    mysql --user=myDbUserName --password myDbName

    to enter your DB (it will prompt you for the password), then to fix, run

    UPDATE wp_options SET option_value='http://www.yourwebsitehere.com' WHERE option_name IN ('home', 'siteurl')

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