Unable to login through admin panel

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    I am unable to login to my wordpress blog:
    http://www.pcabout.com/wp-admin
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    Whenever I input the login details, it is being redirected to this page for the login:
    http://www.pcabout.com/wp-login.php
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    This issue started today itself, never had this issue before (since 3 years).

    I re-uploaded all wordpress files, but it did not solve the issue. I renamed my theme folder as -old, but still of no use.

    P.S. : I recently had malware attack, which I cleaned and also removed the fake users from my admin panel.

    Please guys, anybody help me solve this issue.
     
    hammadfaisal007, Sep 10, 2012 IP
  2. Devtard

    Devtard Notable Member

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    Do you have cookies allowed? Have you tried logging in with another browser?
     
    Devtard, Sep 10, 2012 IP
  3. Dean_Saliba

    Dean_Saliba Notable Member

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    Have you upgraded to the latest version? It might fix the problem by wiping old files with the new ones.
     
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  4. RobinInTexas

    RobinInTexas Active Member

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    Have you tried resetting the password for the admin user?

    If that doesn't do it you might have to restore/replace some of the MYSQL tables manually using phpMyAdmin
     
    RobinInTexas, Sep 11, 2012 IP
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    bob25 Well-Known Member

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    your host should have some kind of backup. Have you tried contacting them, there may be a small fee (or not), you'd lose any updates you made from the time of the backup, but it can be an option.
     
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  6. xFire

    xFire Greenhorn

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    Well, sometimes wordpress doesn't let me login. When it happens, I will delete all of my cache / cookies. And reset the password from phpmyadmin. It works everytime.
     
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  7. hammadfaisal007

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    Thank you guys for your suggestion.

    I solved this issue today. The problem was with the password. My admin login password and the mail password was same. I changed the password and now it's working fine. Again I changed the password to previous one (i.e., same as mail one) then same problem occurred. Then I have to change it again to make it work normal.

    I did not understand guys, why is it happening? I mean does having password same as admin login and mail makes any problem. It never happened since a year...
     
    hammadfaisal007, Sep 12, 2012 IP
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    do you have enmpy space in some php files ?
     
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  9. hammadfaisal007

    hammadfaisal007 Member

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    what does this mean?
     
    hammadfaisal007, Sep 12, 2012 IP
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    sometimes if you have in fuctions.php or other .php file empy spaces which can get you this error.
     
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    The only thing I can think of is that there is a character within your password of some other problem with your password that is causing a problem somewhere in the way php and or MYSQL handles, encrypts, stores and retrieves the password
     
    RobinInTexas, Sep 13, 2012 IP
  12. hammadfaisal007

    hammadfaisal007 Member

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    I did not have spaces, it were only alphabets with special characters.
     
    hammadfaisal007, Sep 13, 2012 IP