I want to install something different than wordpress under 'mydomain/login', but WordPress automatically redirecting this link '/login' to '/wp-login.php'.

Where can I turn off this redirection?

I want to install something different than wordpress under 'mydomain/login', but WordPress automatically redirecting this link '/login' to '/wp-login.php'.

Where can I turn off this redirection?

• php
• redirect
• login

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• This question is almost similar to what you are asking!!! stackoverflow/questions/1976781/… – sri Commented Feb 18, 2014 at 13:33
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If you look at canonical.php you will notice that the wp_redirect_admin_locations function is hooked very late-- at priority 1000. This means that just about any function hooked to redirect_canonical runs before this one. So, conditionally remove wp_redirect_admin_locations from the template_redirect hook.

add_action(
  'template_redirect', 
  function() {
    $requ = untrailingslashit($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
    if (site_url('login','relative') === $requ ){
      remove_action( 'template_redirect', 'wp_redirect_admin_locations', 1000 );
    }
  }
);

This answer is based on the findings of “login” in permalink redirects to wp-login.php wp3.6

Disable "/login" redirect

As already stated there the relevant code is located at the very end in /wp-includes/canonical.php

You need to remove the default "wp_redirect_admin_locations" and replace it with a slightly modified custom version. Add this to your function.php file.

function custom_wp_redirect_admin_locations() {
    global $wp_rewrite;
    if ( ! ( is_404() && $wp_rewrite->using_permalinks() ) )
        return;

    $admins = array(
        home_url( 'wp-admin', 'relative' ),
        home_url( 'dashboard', 'relative' ),
        home_url( 'admin', 'relative' ),
        site_url( 'dashboard', 'relative' ),
        site_url( 'admin', 'relative' ),
    );
    if ( in_array( untrailingslashit( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ), $admins ) ) {
        wp_redirect( admin_url() );
        exit;
    }

    $logins = array(
        home_url( 'wp-login.php', 'relative' )
    );
    if ( in_array( untrailingslashit( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ), $logins ) ) {
        wp_redirect( site_url( 'wp-login.php', 'login' ) );
        exit;
    }
}

function remove_default_login_redirect() {
    remove_action('template_redirect', 'wp_redirect_admin_locations', 1000);
    add_action( 'template_redirect', 'custom_wp_redirect_admin_locations', 1000 );
}

add_action('init','remove_default_login_redirect');

Why this might not even be necessary

Also you should be aware that the redirect only applies if there is nothing else at /login. As soon as e.g. you create a page /login the redirect doesn't apply any more. (See /wp-includes/canonical.php:553 for where this happens.