Redirection loop to homepage after installing bbPress 2.6 (admin lockout)

[Bark]

Hi,

After installing version alpha 2.6, I came accross the following bug.

At first, nothing was going on, as long as I kept logged in after the install. However, after I wanted to login in my admin panel after the initial installation 3 hours later, a problem emerged.

I found out that the bbPress 2.6 installation on my WP 4.2.1 platform results in a redirection loop to my homepage, locking myself (admin) continously out. The funny thing is that I am actually logged in. I can see that in the forum at the front end.

Platform details:

• WordPress Version:WP 4.2.1
• Web Server Info:Apache
• PHP Version:5.5.17
• WP Memory Limit:192 MB
• WP Max Upload Size:100 MB
• PHP Time Limit:120
• WP Debug Mode:Disabled

When I click on my backend tab in Chrome, which normally loads:

​http://www.wordpress.spiritueleverlichting.nl/wp-login.php

I am redirected to the homepage, though I am actually logged in.

I have tried the following:

• deactivating all plugins, to no avail
• switching themes (to twenty-fifteen), to no avail
• asking support from Siteground, everything is set up correctly according to them
• clear all cache

Via FTP I change the bbPress folder name so I am able to access the backend. Once logged in, I change the folder name back to its original name.

What is interesting is that when I log out while bbPress activited, the following URL emerges after the log out:

​http://www.wordpress.spiritueleverlichting.nl/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wordpress.spiritueleverlichting.nl%2Fwp-admin%2Findex.php%3Fpage%3Dbbp-about%26loggedout%3Dtrue&reauth=1

And in my error log, I found the following script:

mod_hive matched URI – normal admin URL – with match 2, referer: – admin URL with redirection

Hopefully you find this info valueable :-)

Best regards,

Bark

[netweb]

Bark,

The expected behaviour of bbPress out of the box is to not allow users access to /wp-admin, we actually redirect back to the site home page, this should not be happening for the site administrator (bbPress role keymaster)

When you visit ​http://www.wordpress.spiritueleverlichting.nl/wp-admin/users.php you should see your admin account and bbPress role:

At the moment I cannot access the above or below URL's without getting any errors per the screenshots linked

Can I ask where you downloaded 2.6 alpha from?
(Here on bbPress Trac or via ​https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/developers/)

For reference: A couple of screenshots via trying bbPress URL's on your site:

• ​http://www.wordpress.spiritueleverlichting.nl/forums
• ​http://www.wordpress.spiritueleverlichting.nl/onderwerpen
• ​https://cloudup.com/c-SDw1r7Yzf
• ​https://cloudup.com/cf5j2644i4o

[Bark]

Hello,

Thanks for your reply. Well it makes sense what you say, I hadn't think about it :-)

I checked upon the keymaster role and I have it (in Dutch), see screenshot:

The errors were a temporary server downtime, that's what they said at SiteGround. If you check the pages again, you are able to access them (I hope). In addition, I activated the default 12-15 theme so as to rule out any conflicts between bbPress and my actual theme. That is why you will see that many shortcodes on pages.

I got the 2.6 alpha from bbPress download page, so no vague download portal download ;-)

Do you have any other ideas regarding possible bug fixes?

Best regards,

Bark

[Bark]

Hi,

Well, I just wanted to rule out something, so I created a new user (administrator) with a keymaster role, to no avail.

However, by activating the toolbar in the frontend mode, I am able to access the dashboard by clicking on "Dashboard" after being forwarded to the homepage.

Of course, this is only a temp. solution and does not solve the problem.

Maybe this information helps :-)

Best regards,

Bark

[johnjamesjacoby]

Any updates on this? Looks like the website is gone.

I'm moving these back down in priority until we can confirm we can duplicate this.