Login redirects to dashboard
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My friend and I are new at this but we have had some success … until now. Suddenly, when I go to his site, it requires me to login. I was not registered so I did that. Got my email, went to the login, and entered user/pw. Then it sent me to a generic dashboard instead of his site. I’ve tried it many times and no matter what I do I end up at the dashboard. I was able to locate his blog in blog surver and see the start of his post, but clicking on anything there … you guessed it, sent me back to the dash board.
What up with dat?
– Greg
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It sounds like you maybe experiencing the “global dashboard” http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/03/05/global-dashboard/
To reach you friend’s blog simply type the blog’s url into your browser and click “go”. -
That’s exactly what I have been doing. There are two scenarios, both begin by entering http://www.wp<friend>.com. If I am NOT logged in, it takes me to a login screen (even though my friend says he did not turn that on). I registered, got the email, went back and logged in. Then it sends me to the <global?> dashboard. After that, if I enter the URL while logged in it sends me to the dashboard immediately. I got his blog to display in Blog Surfer and display the first entry, but if I click on anything I go to the dashboard agaom.
[update] He just set the blog to “public” and the problems went away. This too makes little sense since on blog surf it was ALREADY classified as public.
It’s a mystery.
tkx anyway, greg
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this sounds like something to report to feedback because it seems to be a back-end problem. to send a feedback, go to dashboard and look at the top right hand corner.
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There are two scenarios, both begin by entering ww.wp<friend>.com.
That cannot be your friend’s wordpress.com blog’s url.
Note that wordpress url’s do not include www.
A wordpresss.com blog url looks like this: http://myfriendsblog.wordpress.com -
re: Feedback … yes, I did that first. But I wasn’t sure if that was the right place or not; it didn’t have the structure of the forums.
re: “www” … well, I’ve tried it both ways, but I thought www was always required in any URL to be found on the “world wide web”. The fact that most services now add both the html:// and the www. by default makes it appear that they are not necessary, but I think they are still part of a fully formed URL (of that type, not to be confused with the many other types of URLs like FTP, <mail> and so on.).
Thanks to everyone for the comments. Anyone want to take a guess at why this behavior is associated with a blog marked “public” by the administrator versus one that is not? As I said above, the problem went away when he set it back to “public”. And yes, that does make the backend suspect.
tkx … this is a good community … greg
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@gregrobert
I’m glad to hear you have asked for staff help. Please take note of this too, okay :) https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=6185&page&replies=9#post-39950 -
re: Timethief … thanks for that pointer.
Both forms of the URL, with and without the “www.” bring up the same page (and both respond to pings, though they yield different IPs). (I just tried those two things as writing this.) I’m going to read through that article a few times (and look elsewhere on the web) and try and get a better handle on this.
It does point to a long standing question for me which is “why are there sites that REQUIRE the www. prefix when most work with and without it?” That article is pointing me to parameters whose setting may determine that.
But in the interim it would appear that a wordpress blog can be addressed both with and without the www. prefix, regardless of the how or why that works. At least via IE7.
– Greg
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sites that require www just have poor webhosts that dont have their vhosts set up correctly in apache.
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Once upon a time I was an “expert” writing device drivers and memory managment inside the OS. Now I’m the rawest of newbies. Damn I hate the humiliation of getting old. Thanks for the help guys.
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Both with and without the ‘www’ should work. May not point to the same page but they should work. The issue is, which is why we try to get folks around here to not use the ‘www’ is they use it as a subdomain to their subdomain. (ie: http://www.username.wordpress.com) There’s just too many buggie versions of Bind (and that other DNS server that I can’t think of) out that where this won’t work.
If you look at a correctly setup DNS record, the ‘www’ should CNAME over to the non-www domain. example
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Well, after some feedback from feedback this is apparently “by design”. I don’t care for it; I think it is very misleading and the system aught not to encourage you to “register and login” when facing a “login required screen” when in fact that process will NOT solve your problem, but just set you running in circles. Nonetheless, I’m going to flag this as resolved. thanks, greg
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