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I have a Wordpress network where I run +/- 10 sites. Recently, I got a redirect error when accessing the wp-admin page for one of the sites. All sites in the network are working fine, I can also access their admin without any issue except for one site.

I get the error: ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

Here is what I have done:

  • clean all my cookies
  • clean cache in browser, server and cloud
  • rename htaccess
  • rename plugin folder
  • rename theme folder
  • add define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', false); to wp-config

This site has exactly the same configuration as the others, I don't understand why I can't reach my admin page.

Do you have any idea?

Thanks

Laurent

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  • Are you hosting your additional sites on subdomain or subdirectory? Please check if there is in wp config multiple lines of define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', false); since I had 2 because caching plugin added one. If you have one more then one delete them all it will work fine. If that is not the case I recommend you deleting everything from your htaccess file and using just basic configuration for multisite codex.wordpress.org/…
    – Luka
    May 21, 2017 at 14:25
  • Hi Luka, all my domains are pointing to the same directory, I have only one wp-config.php file and there is no define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', false); in it. When I add one, I get an error message on all sites. I have tried to clean the htaccess but even removing it completely doesn't solve the issue. It works for all other sites but one so I don't think htaccess is the issue. May 22, 2017 at 17:21
  • Check what plugin is enabled on 'problematic' site and not on the others and disable it. I recommend disabling all plugins temporary and checking again, if that doesn't solve issue then theme may be problem.
    – Luka
    May 22, 2017 at 19:46
  • Hi Luka, all sites are using exactly the same plugins, I have also tried to deactivate them all and the problem was still there. May 22, 2017 at 20:58
  • You can try to overwrite wordpress files with latest ones that may fix the issue. I would personally build all files from scratch with all required plugins and just to connect to existing database.
    – Luka
    May 23, 2017 at 14:10

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I have been experiencing exactly the same thing. I run 5 Wordpress sites on the same server, but suddenly started getting ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS when I try to access wp-admin on one of them (the others are fine). If I delete .htaccess entirely in that domain's subdirectory I can access the admin panel again, similarly if I delete the Wordpress code from the top of the .htaccess file (although then I lose the redirects for pretty permalinks).

Having consulted with my host, they advised me that it may be an issue with using SSL and Cloudflare. Once I disabled Cloudflare everything returned to normal. I have now changed the Cloudflare SSL support to 'Full Strict' and am waiting for it top propagate.

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  • Aaaah, brilliant!! That's exactly the issue. I'm also using Cloudfare and discovered that SSL was set to "flexible" instead of "full". By switching to full, I now have access again to my dashboard. Thanks a lot!! May 25, 2017 at 13:59

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