Wordpress redirect to subdirectory - wp-admin forwards to wrong login url

Question

I moved a Wordpress site to a new server. The site is installed in a subdirectory and the .htaccess in the root forwards to it like so:

 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteCond $1 !(^wpfolder/)
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ wpfolder/$1 [L]

I've changed the site_url and home entries in the wp_options table in the database. Everything is working fine - except if I visit site.com/wp-admin to login - it redirects to the login page like so:

site.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fsite.com%2Fwpfolder%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1 (notice the 'wpfolder' in the redirect_to value)

When I enter the correct username and password, nothing happens and I get the login box again. I can log in no problem by visiting site.com/wp-login.php - but I'd really like to solve this redirect problem if possible.

Same problem here, trying to figure out how to make it work... it seems it should be prevented in the rewrite rule (something like: on redirect, use original url) — Virgílio Santos

Virgílio Santos Virgílio Santos · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-18T21:00:14

I found a solution that worked for me. Update the site url to site.com/wpfolder

if you are having problems doing that, you can put define('RELOCATE',true); on you wp-config.php file and it would do it for you. The admin and login links will be site.com/wpfolder/wp-admin but on the site itself the url are all relative to the root (site.com/about) and I think it is the correct behavior of this configuration

Hope it help

Wordpress redirect to subdirectory - wp-admin forwards to wrong login url

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