Bug Summary When creating a new local site you are unable to login. You are not given a failed login message but are redirected back to the login again. Steps to reproduce Create new local site Go to local site wp-admin Try to login with credentials You should now be redirected to the login page a…

Hi all - This issue has been addressed in the latest release of Local, currently in Beta - Local Beta 7.0.2 If anyone is able to download the Beta release and confirm the issue has been resolved, that would be great. Everything has looked good in our QA process, but always good to double check. We…

Hello @dominicusheru - Can you please provide more information so we can support you? Your Local site setup Your Local logs (you can obtain those here: Retrieving Local’s Log File - Local The error message you are receiving Thank you! I’ve merged your topic here as this appears to be related +…

Issue Summary After updating to local wp 7.0.1 yesterday, I cannot login into the admin dashboards of the newly created sites via the wp-admin/wp-login urls. After clicking the Log In button, the site just redirects to the login page again, and resets the username/password input fields. Troubleshoo…

Hey there. I believe there’s a solution to this here (URL) But I have the same issue and I don’t understand the solution. Maybe it helps you or maybe anyone can place the edited wp-config.php file here for download? I have no idea how to do this and I don’t know programming.

Hello @mirko and @Tamsn - If you downgrade back to the previous version of Local do you still see the same behavior? [image] Downgrade Local Version Downgrading Local may be used to troubleshoot issues presented with a newer version or other various reasons. We recommend running Local …

@mirko this happened to me right after I upgraded to 7.0.1! :face_with_symbols_over_mouth: I was still able to log into sites created with older versions of Local. Somewhat relieved that I’m not the only one dealing with this. I hope it relieves you to know downgrading to 6.7.2 has worked for me! T…

Thanks for the quick reply. I downgraded to 6.7.2 and deleted and recreated my new site in this version. It didn’t work just with the downgrade, but with a new site that’s been created in the old version, it now it appears to be working. Thanks.

@Tamsn , thank you for the link, I have found the sam quick fix in the meantime. The 7.0.1 places the generated keys at the bottom of the wp.config file. You just need to move them up: [image] @sambrockway , I tried downgrading, but as @Tamsn said, the sites created with 7.0.1 have the problem: …

After installation Local 7.0.1 update (Windows 10) I couldn’t Log Into WP Dash board. All the old WP sites work fine and I can log in All frashly created WP sites - I can’t Log In. The system (LocalWP) just doesn’t accept my Log/Pass. I deleted LocalWP via Revo Unistaller, made a frash installa…

I agree that the solution in another thread was anything but clear. But all they did was move a bunch of lines from the end of wp-config.php to where I have referenced in the photo [Capture]

Unable to login, changing wp-config.php workaround

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dominicusheru June 16, 2023, 10:56am 2

Bug Summary

I updated local to 7.0.1 but cannot login as admin.

Environment Info

windows 10 64bit

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Unable to login, changing wp-config.php workaround

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