Magento

Hey dear Magento Team,

This is the first time im getting problem with a Magento release. I don’t see any wrong in what i do when i try to install the latest release of magento. I’ve always did the same way with earlier versions, but with the newest one im getting a very annoying problem.

Well, after installation of the latest release, when i try to login to the admin, it doesn’t work at all. Im 100% sure that i write the correct username and password (lol), still dont work. It just redirects me to the same page without warnings etc, the strange thing is if i put a wrong username/password, i get “access denied”.

I really dont have any clue what could been wrong, so it would be interesting to know what the problem could be.

Sirencly
Joley

same problem here with wamp5

Oh yes, i forget to tell that the platforms i use is on Windows XP together with XAMPP… But i’d never got this problem with other releases, any ideas?

Í have the exact same problem. Windows XP and XAMPP. I think this is a XAMPP related problem. I installed Magento under Ubuntu + LAMPP, and I had this problem too. I’ll keep checking…

davy - 09 March 2008 01:59 AM
Same error. login/password correct (otherwise I get Access denied error) but I ca’t get past the login page.
Installed new version (0.8.1720) from scratch on windows

Oh, I see. I guess you installed magento on localhost and are trying to access it like http://localhost/magento. But due to standard restrictions browsers don’t save cookie for domains with no dots in domain name. You can try to access it with http://localhost.com/magento or whatever else if you write it to your hosts file on Window

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/4198/P0/

If this is a standard restriction, what changed?  This problem did not occur for the above users with earlier releases, and I’ve got the same issue now as well.  Never had an issue like this with the last 4 releases....

Based on info in another post, I used http://127.0.0.1/ instead of http://localhost and as able to login.  Still not sure why the change, but there’s the solution for local development…

try the following - edit your hosts file - wirte after localhost.com instead of localhost. Save the file and reboot.
After that the login will work.

In this version the login is handeled by a cookie and browsers normally don’t accept cookies from a TLD (in this case localhost is a TLD)

Hi all,

Thanks for everyone’s help. It worked by accessing admin pagen through “http://127.0.0.1/magento/index.php/admin”.

Nice job everyone!

Thanks.

oh this is GOLD ...

Funnily enough, if you develop using sessions rather than cookies (which by the way the browser saves a session key as a cookie) the browser CAN support it without the dots

Still a quick tinker to my apache conf file & local hosts and away we go thank you

Same issue here on OSX with MAMP. Adding a “.local” to my vhosts fixed the problem. Thanks guys

I have installed Magento on my PC with XAMPP and I cannot login to admin. Where is the admin stored because I do not have a folder labelled admin?

There is no folder admin. You can either access admin through

or if you enabled clean urls during installation process

HTH