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  • December 16, 2016 at 3:16 am #1295426

    puppixx
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    Hi,

    I haven’t logged into my site for a while but now I can’t seem to log in anymore.

    I get this error message in Chrome:
    The *.com page isn’t working
    *.com is currently unable to handle this request.
    HTTP ERROR 500

    I can log in via */wp-login but then it redirects my URL to http://*.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php?_wp_http_referer=%2Fwp-admin%2F

    I’ve tried disabling my Clef login without success.
    I’ve tried re-installing wordpress (latest v)

    December 16, 2016 at 3:27 am #1295436

    puppixx
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    December 16, 2016 at 4:44 am #1295483

    Paul R
    Moderator

    Hi,

    Try to rename plugins folder in wp-content to deactivate all plugins.

    Then try to access wp-admin, if it fixes the issue it means one of the plugin is causing the issue.

    After that rename it back to plugins and you can narrow down which one by reactivating them one at a time.

    Hope that helps.

    December 16, 2016 at 6:44 am #1295545

    puppixx
    Participant

    *SOLVED!* Thanks! 🙂 (so if you wanna go do something more fun than reading my story about it, please do 😉

    I think it had something to do with W3-total-cache and wp-super-cache conflicting with each other as I had them both installed (but not activated? or at least so I think). I got this cryptic message saying something with “w3-total-cache…” when logged in, so a delete + fresh install solved the problem.

    Thanks, again!

    December 16, 2016 at 7:54 am #1295601

    Darshana
    Moderator

    Glad you were able to figure it out 🙂

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