what am I doing wrong -wordpress

Hey @thedabbler. I know it's 6 days later, but hopefully your hair is still intact ;)

I tried recreating this myself using the Wordpress OCA, and after navigating to the Wordpress login site, I was able to log in successfully using the Wordpress Admin username and the Admin password I created when deploying the server.

For what it's worth, I manually typed in my username/password each time to make sure nothing was amiss. I also used the following syntax for the login site (this is straight from the OCA guide I linked above):

http://< your IP address >/wp-login.php

To help eliminate any potential issues, I'd recommend clearing your browser cache and cookies, using a different browser, or even trying to generate/save your passwords with a password utility such as 1Password. I use 1Password pretty religiously, and it hasn't steered me wrong yet.

I'm sure you've already been through it enough times already, but when you're entering your Admin user info, just make sure you're using the Wordpress Admin details rather than the limited sudo user info that the OCA template has you create.

Fingers crossed that by now you've been able to get things up and running, but I hope this helps narrow things down either way!

@jdutton So it has been a minute since I have looked into this with the holidays. I have created the Linode one last time and created passwords using a password generator.

I made sure to copy the password from the generator into a text file and from the text file into the password fields. I made sure before deploying the Linode to triple check that all fields matched what I documented in the text file.

I have now got to the point where I am trying to log into the wordpress admin panel and I am getting the same error..

I am starting to wonder if there may be an issue with the username format that I have chosen.

Are you aware of any username limitations that may be in place?

I do not recall seeing any alerts when I created the linode.

@thedabbler - I did some quick searching, and from what I can tell Wordpress usernames don't seem to support special characters (I imagine this means that emails aren't valid as usernames). I even stumbled upon a plugin that helps users enable special characters for Wordpress logins:

WordPress Special Characters in Usernames

Also, there's seems to be built in code that replaces accented characters with unaccented ones. I found a Stack Exchange forum that lays out the source code here:

Wordpress User Name Limitations

I'm not sure what formatting you're trying, but when I made my login a couple weeks back I just used regular characters and numbers. It might be worth testing out something super simple to see if it takes. Obviously, you'll want to make your password super strong, but try keeping it to basic characters (upper/lowercase, numbers, etc) to test things out. Usually password generators give you the option of choosing which types of characters you want to use.

If you figure out what the issue is, be sure to post here in case anyone else runs into the same thing. :)

@jdutton

I got a quick little update in the little bit of time I was put into this tonight.. Probably going to over document but if it helps someone else out in the future then its all worth it.

I figured my starting point would be the username. My original username had a period in it. So I got rid of it and just went with the typical "admin" But I kept the same password. NO GO AGAIN.

So next step would be the password..my third try I went with the worst security combo EVER username:admin password:admin and wouldn't ya figure it worked fine..

Looking over the password that I got from the generator the only special characters it had was a " / and {
I am thinking it was the quote marks that are getting me. I did some quick googling and cannot find anything that shows limitations on passwords.