How to fix login for admin on local install
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Unable to login to Magento when installing on a local machine. Installation on Wamp, Mamp, Xampp etc. ?? |
If have just installed Magento on my local machine, but when you try to go to admin you can't login what can you do? |
Problem as described: I enter my correct username and password but I am redirected to the same login page. I can an error message that says I entered the wrong username and password. When I enter my correct username and password I get redirected to the same login page.
The following are some help solutions:
- Make sure you have cookies enabled in your browser, try a number of different browsers including Safari or Opera. Chrome will give some problems and you need to remember to clear you cache in Chrome after making changes!
- Make sure you file permissions are set to EVERYONE - FULL CONTROL for Windows and 777 for your Mac/Linux environment If all that still doesn’t work you can try this: (I do not recommend this solution for a production version of Magento, but for you local test enviroment this will work.)
Magento 1.3 and below
Find app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Session/Abstract/Varien.php. in your Magento install folder. Comment out the lines (see below) 80 to 83. The line number may vary.
You have to comment the comma (,) in line: $this→getCookie()→getPath(), set session cookie params session_set_cookie_params( $this→getCookie()→getLifetime(), $this→getCookie()→getPath() , $this→getCookie()→getDomain(), $this→getCookie()→isSecure(), $this→getCookie()→getHttponly() );
For Magento 1.4 and above: Find app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Session/Abstract/Varien.php. and look for line 86 to 98 if (!$cookieParams[’httponly’]) { unset($cookieParams[’httponly’]); if (!$cookieParams[’secure’]) { unset($cookieParams[’secure’]); if (!$cookieParams[’domain’]) { unset($cookieParams[’domain’]); } } } if (isset($cookieParams[’domain’])) { $cookieParams[’domain’] = $cookie→getDomain(); }
