Fixing WordPress 1.5 on Windows 2000 (IIS 5)
EDIT: 2005 May 9 — The official fix is out! Download 1.5.1!
Well, I’ve upgraded to WordPress 1.5 and things seem to be going pretty well. I did have to spend the better part of a day trying to figure out why I couldn’t either log in to my admin page from a computer that hadn’t logged in yet, nor could I log out from a computer that was normally logged in. Turns out there is a problem setting a cookie and sending header redirection (a “location:” header) from the same Php file on a Windows 2000 Server (IIS 5).
But there is a workaround. It takes a few manual edits, but I think it fixes most of the problem. — EDIT: 2005 Mar 13 — Please note that the changes I outlined below have become outdated. I have created a zip file with all the necessary changes as will be implemented in the official release of WP 1.5.1. You can download the zip file from my site.
While the changes below work, they are NOT the accepted method for fixing this problem. Please instead use the files contained in the zip file I am providing above.
Starting with the wp-login.php file, open in a text editor and make the following changes:
Line 185: Change this:
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header("Location: $redirect_to");
to this:
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// Start of IIS fix by Toby
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//header("Location: $redirect_to");
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if (strstr(php_uname(), 'Windows'))
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header("Refresh: 0;url=$redirect_to");
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else
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header("Location: $redirect_to");
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// End of IIS fix by Toby
Line 30: Change this:
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header('Location: wp-login.php');
to this:
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// Start of IIS fix by Toby
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//header('Location: wp-login.php');
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if (strstr(php_uname(), 'Windows'))
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header("Refresh: 0;url=wp-login.php");
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else
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header("Location: wp-login.php");
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// End of IIS fix by Toby
Now, open up the wp-pass.php file and make the following changes:
Line 10: Change this:
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header('Location: ' . $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
to this:
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// Start of IIS fix by Toby
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//header('Location: ' . $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
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if (strstr(php_uname(), 'Windows'))
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<del dateTime="2005-02-21T23:18:1906:00">header("Refresh: 0;url=$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']");</del> // props to nate!
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header("Refresh: 0;url=".$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
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else
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header('Location: ' . $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
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// End of IIS fix by Toby
Then, open up the wp-comments-post.php file and make this change:
Line 55: Change this:
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header("Location: $location");
to this:
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// Start of IIS fix by Toby
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//header("Location: $location");
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if (strstr(php_uname(), 'Windows'))
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header("Refresh: 0;url=$location");
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else
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header("Location: $location");
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// End of IIS fix by Toby
That should do it.
— Edit —
Okay, I found some more changes to make. Open wp-admin/link-manager.php and make the following changes:
Line 269: Change this:
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header('Location: '.$this_file);
to this:
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// Start of IIS fix by Toby
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//header('Location: '.$this_file);
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if (strstr(php_uname(), 'Windows'))
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header("Refresh: 0;url=$this_file");
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else
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header('Location: '.$this_file);
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// End of IIS fix by Toby
Line 245: Change this:
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header('Location: ' . $this_file);
to this:
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// Start of IIS fix by Toby
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//header('Location: ' . $this_file);
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if (strstr(php_uname(), 'Windows'))
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header("Refresh: 0;url=$this_file");
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else
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header('Location: ' . $this_file);
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// End of IIS fix by Toby
Open wp-admin/options.php and make the following changes:
Line 87: Change this:
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header('Location: ' . $goback);
to this:
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// Start of IIS fix by Toby
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//header('Location: ' . $goback);
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if (strstr(php_uname(), 'Windows'))
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header("Refresh: 0;url=$goback");
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else
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header('Location: ' . $goback);
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// End of IIS fix by Toby
Open wp-admin/profile.php, make the following changes:
Line 85: Change this:
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header('Location: profile.php?updated=true');
to this:
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// Start of IIS fix by Toby
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//header('Location: profile.php?updated=true');
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if (strstr(php_uname(), 'Windows'))
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header("Refresh: 0;url=profile.php?updated=true");
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else
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header('Location: profile.php?updated=true');
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// End of IIS fix by Toby
Whew, that’s it for now.
Toby, if you have time, could you also try the workaround I proposed? I’m curious to see if manually setting the “Status” will work around this problem in IIS.
Just a tiny little note…
on some line you need to strip out the \
example
// Start of IIS fix by Toby
//header(“Location: $location”);
if (strstr(php_uname(), ‘Windows’))
header(“Refresh: 0;url=$location”);
else
header(“Location: $location”);
// End of IIS fix by Toby
should really be
// Start of IIS fix by Toby
//header(“Location: $location”);
if (strstr(php_uname(), ‘Windows’))
header(“Refresh: 0;url=$location”);
else
header(“Location: $location”);
// End of IIS fix by Toby
then it works great…
Thanks man, a definite lifesaver there…
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I’m still having a problem with this… Instead of logging in properly, it just sends me to a blank screen. I’ve never used wordpress before, and php is about the same as Greek to me. I have little to no idea what I’m doing wrong here. If you can email me, and help me out with this, (or maybe just send me the properly edited files) I would be eternally grateful
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Thanks I have fixed the login problem but…
I am using windows 2003 server and I have also the following problems
I can not access to the EDIT tab ( http://www.noseasboludo.com/wp-admin/edit.php ) it shows ERROR 404 but the file is there
On Miscellaneous Options, Destination directory shows C:\Domains\noseasboludo.com\wwwroot/wp-content
And everytime that I press update adds a new \ to the path example
C:\Domains\noseasboludo.com\wwwroot/wp-content
Last but not least when I upload an image and post it I have a broken link, if I see the img src like I gets http://www.noseasboludo.com/ “http://www.noseasboludo.com/images/winter_pics_sec_2005_1.jpg/”
Any other person with the same problems?
I tried upgrade from 1.2.2 before, then I just started from the scratch with the same luck
Any help?
Thanks for the write-up, this saved me hours of grief.
Thanks for the write-up, this saved me hours of grief.
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I did the fix and everything seems to work fine, except now when i try to access a password protected folder, i get the following error:
“PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-pass.php on line 13”
Can anyone help with this?
thanks
Amanda,
I kinda hate to send you versions of the files when Matt is going to rework them officially. If you are really desperate, send me an e-mail to toby(at)simmonsconsulting.com and I’ll send you what I got.
Cheers,
Toby
Nate,
I never use password protected pages, so I didn’t check that bit of code. Use this on line 13 instead:
header("Refresh: 0;url=".$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);Cheers,
Toby
Followed this link
http://mosquito.wordpress.org/view.php?id=592
Fantastic! This fix worked perfectly.
Thanks to all on the above thread who gave this their attention.
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good job~~~thank you!!!
you are excellent~~~
I just downloaded the version 1.5 (Which is in reality 1.5.1) and the login problem was fixed.
Feel free to download the ZIP again from http://www.wordpress.org and everything will be fine.
Hmm, I just downloaded the regular ZIP and it still contained the code that doesn’t work on IIS. I checked out the Subversion repository and it, too, does not have the fix in it. Can you tell me where you found a 1.5.1 version?
Ummm… Well, before you go pointing fingers at IIS, I’ve been experiencing the same problem — recycling back to the login page. The difference is I’m running Apache 2 / PHP 5, I do have to admit I’m running XP as the OS…so I wonder if it’s OS related rather than server related.
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Thank you for the thorough instructions and explanation about this! I spent hours trying to figure out what was going on and, as it turns out, there were more problems than just IIS playing unfairly. I don’t know if this has happened to others but, before we go blaming IIS for being the only cause of this login-redirect issue, I wanted to point out that Firefox can also cause a similar problem which, if I hadn’t read this post, I’d have thought was the only reason for my headaches. Turns out that my personal preference for only allowning session cookies created by the originating site can send you in a login-loop, as well. Every time I tried to login I’d be sent right back to the login screen except that, unlike the IIS issue, there was a “session timed out” error. Using Internet Explorer didn’t result in the same problem and this is what tipped me off to the fact that I need to make an exception to allow cookies for my WordPress server in Firefox. Hopefully, others will see this (buried) comment and not make the same mistake I did…or, if they do, they won’t waste too much time trying to sort things out!
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Thanks Toby. Just when I was starting to loose my patience I decided to google ‘WordPress 1.5 Windows Login’
Yeah, thanks a lot Toby. I thought I sucked at computers for a while.
Toby…..
YOU ROCK MAN!!!!!!
Thanks so much for posting this IIS fix… Did the trick for me. The thing works perfectly now….
//*Thanks I have fixed the login problem but…
I am using windows 2003 server and I have also the following problems
I can not access to the EDIT tab ( http://www.noseasboludo.com/wp-admin/edit.php ) it shows ERROR 404 but the file is there
On Miscellaneous Options, Destination directory shows C:\Domains\noseasboludo.com\wwwroot/wp-content
And everytime that I press update adds a new \ to the path example
C:\Domains\noseasboludo.com\wwwroot/wp-content
Last but not least when I upload an image and post it I have a broken link, if I see the img src like I gets http://www.noseasboludo.com/ “http://www.noseasboludo.com/images/winter_pics_sec_2005_1.jpg/â€
Any other person with the same problems?
I tried upgrade from 1.2.2 before, then I just started from the scratch with the same luck
Any help? *//
yes,i with the same problems,who can help me~
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Thanks a lot! At last an easy solution for this stupid problem :-)
I am having the same problem as another poster on this page: I copied over all the new files and not I just get blank pages for everything after I login. …even when I manually type in new page names after logging in. Any ideas?
peace,
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Yep, just installed WordPress 1.5 on my Win2K IIS box. No workie, the admin login page just cycles. I tried the zip file and did replace those in the install.
Should I try a different release of WP?
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