Magento

Hi,

I’ve just installed Magento on my local machine and I’m using the latest version of WAMP.

The installation process was easy enough and appeared to be successful, however I am unable to log into the admin panel?

I have tried numerous suggestions in posts on the forum but none of them seem to work.

I’ve tried the following:
- Using an IP address in place of the domain which doesn’t contain a . i.e. using 127.0.0.1 in place of localhost
- Clicking forgot you password and clicking back to login
- Deleting the files within \var\session
- Uninstalling and reinstalling WAMP
- Uninstalling and reinstalling Magento

The problem appears to be that the core_config_data table is empty except for the following row:

1, Default, 0, catalog/category/root_id, 2

From my understanding there should be just over 500 entries in this table, I’m wondering if anyone is able to export the default data for this table and attach it to the forums so I can run a query to add this data manually?

Also has anyone else found a fix for this problem?

Just to add;

The Customer Login is having the same problem, no error message just refreshing the current page.

I’ve performed some additional testing.

I’m a little confused why I am missing data from the table (apparently?) but I have worked out how to log in correctly.

Firefox:

localhost - doesn’t work
127.0.0.1 - does work

Google Chrome:

localhost - doesn’t work
127.0.0.1 - doesn’t work

Internet Explorer:

localhost - doesn’t work
127.0.0.1 - doesn’t work

So the conclusion is that you need to create an alias in order for cookies to be correctly saved by the browsers.

How to write an Lmhosts file for domain validation: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180094

The reason this is happening is that most browsers require the domain name to have at least one dot in them to store cookies. Not sure why your 127.0.0.1 doesn’t work in IE, that is strange..

More information available in this thread

Thank you.

Using 127.0.0.1 in place of localhost solved my problem. I can now login as an admin, and can now create new users. 

I am using WinXP SP2, and the latest version of XAMPP. I just used 127.0.0.1 as my host address on the db configuration part during install, and when I login as an admin I manually change the above url and replace localhost with 127.0.0.1.

Glad to hear it! Go out and build something great with it!

hey i hav tried what ever is posted in this forum… i also used firefox.. but still im unable to login… when i type my username n password.. the red box doesnt kom saying tht my username n password is wrong but it also doesnt login… the same page gets reloaded… wat can be the prob..

You can try this:
Login with the standard-admin:

User: admin
PW: 123123

Then you can change you current PW under System - Permission - Users

im running in ubuntu 10.04 still can’t login
using Firefox 3.6.6 and Google Chrome 5.0.375.86

Use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost while db configuration in installation and also use this to access the site.

http://magento-xampp.blogspot.com/

I’ve encountered the exact same problem.

My solution :

I created in the frontend a new user.

I copied the frontend-users password (encrypted) to the admin password. (MyphpAdmin)

Hey guys i found something here to fix you issue.

This works for me hope it work for you guys too.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/how_to_fix_login_for_admin_on_local_install#dokuwiki__top

The problem occurs because magneto could not store cookies. We run it as localhost and localhost is not true domain but to store cookies we need a domain. That’s why login stops without saying any word.

Now the time comes for solutions. There are two solutions for this problem which are shown below :
Solutions

First Solution

Suppose I installed magento using google chrome browser and I open admin url into my firefox window and it worked. Though in the firefox the url http://localhost/magento/index.php/admin did not work, but url http://127.0.0.1/magento/index.php/admin worked fine.

Second Solution

Go to app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Session/Abstract/Varien.php file within your magento directory.

Find the code:

and replace with

After this save the file. And try to login into the admin.

Monty
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Hi,

I’ve tried the both solutions but i already have the same problem. I can’t log in with the admin Panel.

Another issue is when trying to create new customer (screenshot in attachement) , i have errors :
“The first name cannot be empty.
The last name cannot be empty.
Invalid email address “".”

if someone can help me.

Thkx.

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Try to clear the cache (execute php mage clear-cache from your Magento base directory). If its no working then tell me.

Monty
iLoveMage