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Unable to log into wordpress after migration from shared hosting to digital ocean

Posted on March 2, 2014

I just completed the migration of my wordpress site to digital ocean’s 1 gb plan. The DNS has finished propagating, and when I go to my site I see my maintenance plugin, but when I attempt to login to wordpress via http://mydomain.com/wp-admin, my username and password are not accepted and the login page just reloads.

Any thoughts?



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“Check your logs” <br>(As in, to see if you’re trying to login to the right site/etc, check for errors) <br>

I get these errors: <br> <br>[Sun Mar 02 18:55:09 2014] [error] [client 166.137.12.90] File does not exist: /var/www/2013, referer: http://t.co/6RPeDFjOYZ <br>[Sun Mar 02 18:55:09 2014] [error] [client 199.59.148.209] File does not exist: /var/www/robots.txt <br>[Sun Mar 02 18:55:09 2014] [error] [client 199.59.148.209] File does not exist: /var/www/2013 <br>[Sun Mar 02 18:55:15 2014] [error] [client 166.137.12.90] File does not exist: /var/www/2013, referer: http://t.co/ZUzfGngKPD <br>[Sun Mar 02 18:55:15 2014] [error] [client 199.59.148.210] File does not exist: /var/www/robots.txt <br>[Sun Mar 02 18:55:15 2014] [error] [client 199.59.148.210] File does not exist: /var/www/2013 <br>[Sun Mar 02 19:22:28 2014] [error] [client 76.31.143.57] File does not exist: /var/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/SAT-Logo.png <br>[Sun Mar 02 19:25:31 2014] [error] [client 76.31.143.57] File does not exist: /var/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/SAT-Logo.png <br>[Sun Mar 02 19:26:59 2014] [error] [client 76.31.143.57] File does not exist: /var/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/SAT-Logo.png <br>[Sun Mar 02 19:27:22 2014] [error] [client 76.31.143.57] File does not exist: /var/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/SAT-Logo.png <br>[Sun Mar 02 19:27:38 2014] [error] [client 76.31.143.57] File does not exist: /var/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/SAT-Logo.png <br>[Sun Mar 02 19:29:19 2014] [error] [client 76.31.143.57] File does not exist: /var/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/SAT-Logo.png <br>[Sun Mar 02 19:32:00 2014] [error] [client 76.31.143.57] File does not exist: /var/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/SAT-Logo.png <br>[Sun Mar 02 19:35:43 2014] [error] [client 76.31.143.57] File does not exist: /var/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/SAT-Logo.png <br>[Sun Mar 02 20:31:20 2014] [error] [client 14.209.232.232] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php <br>[Sun Mar 02 20:31:21 2014] [error] [client 14.209.232.232] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5 <br>[Sun Mar 02 20:31:21 2014] [error] [client 14.209.232.232] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php-cgi <br>[Sun Mar 02 20:31:22 2014] [error] [client 14.209.232.232] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php.cgi <br>[Sun Mar 02 20:31:23 2014] [error] [client 14.209.232.232] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php4 <br>[Mon Mar 03 09:20:38 2014] [error] [client 82.221.105.6] File does not exist: /var/www/robots.txt <br>[Mon Mar 03 13:32:22 2014] [error] [client 23.21.69.133] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php <br>[Mon Mar 03 13:32:22 2014] [error] [client 23.21.69.133] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5 <br>[Mon Mar 03 13:32:22 2014] [error] [client 23.21.69.133] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php-cgi <br>[Mon Mar 03 13:32:22 2014] [error] [client 23.21.69.133] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php.cgi <br>[Mon Mar 03 13:32:22 2014] [error] [client 23.21.69.133] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php4 <br>[Mon Mar 03 14:14:06 2014] [error] [client 23.114.21.64] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php <br>[Mon Mar 03 14:14:27 2014] [error] [client 23.114.21.64] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5 <br>[Mon Mar 03 14:14:27 2014] [error] [client 23.114.21.64] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php-cgi <br>[Mon Mar 03 14:14:27 2014] [error] [client 23.114.21.64] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php.cgi <br>[Mon Mar 03 14:14:27 2014] [error] [client 23.114.21.64] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php4 <br>

Can you pastebin your apache config file?

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