Error 404 – Not Found

Here’s how I fixed it:

I went into my domains control panel and I did an upgrade of WordPress to 2.8.5. I didn’t note what version I was at, but I bet I hadn’t upgraded it in over a year. I think it was either 2.5.x or 2.7.x.

After the upgrade, I could log in without any problem and everything works fine.

Long Version:
So I hadn’t logged into this blog in a really long time (about 6 months) and I just tried to do so about 30 minutes ago and got an error. Whenever I tried going into the /wp-admin page, I got a

Error 404 – Not Found

I then tried to be fancy and use a different page like:
/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http://quirkuniverse.com/wp-admin/

Didn’t work either.

But then I noticed that when viewing posts, it said I was logged in and there was even an ‘edit’ button.

“Ah-ha! This will work!”

Alas, it did not. I still got the 404 error.

Then I decided maybe I should just upgrade. I figured, worst case scenario, here’s a blog that no one reads. In its entire history, perhaps 5 people on the planet have accidentally stumbled upon via an ill fated google search and  perhaps at my insistence to “look at this video on my blog dude”. If the upgrade really screwed things up, I’d just uninstall WordPress and everything and start from scratch.

But holy hell, much to my amazement, I upgraded it from my hosts control panel and it worked, and now I can log in.

Amazing when a simple fix works.