dashboard link

[spineless]

Hello,
When I log in to wordpress I am redirected to ​https://www.website.com/wp-admin/

I am not redirected to ​https://www.website.com/wp-admin/index.php
I need to manually type this into the URL cell.

When I am viewing the website ( click on Visit Website) and logged in. I can see a list of admin pages on the left dropdown menu. dashboard, themes, widgets, menu. All of these have the correct link except dashboard.

The dashboard link is pointing to ​https://www.website.com/wp-admin/. NOT. /wp-a
admin/index.php

so...when I attempt to log in or click on the dashboard button I am redirected to the folder wp-admin. not the page wp-admin/index.php

Please fix this. It is broken and has been broken for months.

Chris Pinter
AKA spineless

[apedog]

That is the correct link.
Just about any directory url you browse to defaults to the index.php file in that directory (if it exists).
Same as when you go to the main front-end directory url of your website https://www.example.com/. You're actually getting https://www.example.com/index.php.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Hi there, welcome to WordPress Trac! Thanks for the report.

As noted above, the current link is correct. When navigating to the wp-admin directory, index.php is supposed to be loading by default. If that does not happen in your install, please check you server configuration (DirectoryIndex directive on Apache, index on nginx) or try the support forums for help: ​https://wordpress.org/support/forums/.

[knutsp]

@spineless Welcome to Trac. Thank you for reporting this. Even if this is not a bug. It could lead to an enhancement for an edge case.

WordPress expects the server to be set up with default DirectoryIndex (in Apache) set to contain index.php. Ideally, WordPress could check this upon install or through Site Health. In case Apache apache_getenv( 'DirectoryIndex' ) could be used to check this.

Then it will be a matter of priority and an assessment the frequency of this wrong configuration out there, whether such check should be included somewhere, maybe on install.

Now mentioned, for the record.