Comments on: Fixing Magento Login Problem after a Fresh Installation

By: Ocean

Ocean — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:18:49 +0000

GoDaddy updated their server with the newest version of Apache in mid Oct. With that in mind Magento wont allow me to login and when I try to retrieve a new password, I use it and it wont let me in the front end either. How can I fix this issue.

By: Vishnu Dutt

Vishnu Dutt — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:07:27 +0000

Hello Sir I am doing magento changes and there is an problems of redirecting I have added new module in magento admin if I am inserting mysql from controller like

if(isset($_REQUEST['submitformimage']))
{}
and after that is not going on the module page come on the admin home page

Please suggest me well.

Thanks

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:36:05 +0000

The root cause of the problem is an inherent bug with Magento overriding and hard coding it to UTC time zone. The fix is rather easy, no coding required, just a little math. This fix worked immediately for us.

http://www.yireo.com/blog/1296-windows-7-google-chrome-magento-admin-cookie-problem

I sincerely hope Magento gets this fixed, what a waste of time, no pun intended.

By: Emiliano

Emiliano — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:48:27 +0000

Hello,
Unfortunately none of those methods worked. As for the web/cookie/cookie_domain
I do not even have that in the database.

By: Jim Pietrangelo

Jim Pietrangelo — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:27:40 +0000

Same problem as the others. Using MAMP. Resolved problem by simply creating a regular user using the Magento login page. Then, go into the database, look for table named customer_entity_varchar. Copy the entry that’s in the value field on row 3. Paste that into the password field in the table admin_user. Done. When you go back to the admin login page, simply use your admin password and the password that you assigned to the regular user you created. Magento should accept these and let you into the back-end.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:07:50 +0000

Tried all the above but no joy. Found this solution that worked for me at:
http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/news/easy-e-commerce-with-magento/

In your Magento folder go to app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Session/Abstract/Varien.php

Find the session_set_cookie_params code block (Line 78) and replace it with this code:

session_set_cookie_params(
$this->getCookie()->getLifetime(),
$this->getCookie()->getPath()
//$this->getCookie()->getDomain(),
//$this->getCookie()->isSecure(),
//$this->getCookie()->getHttponly()
);

On a proper webhost you do not need to do this! However as we are working on localhost we need to do this to address an cookie issue.

Happy days!!!

By: Naveen

Naveen — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:50:47 +0000

Hi Guys,

I was also having the similar problem of first login after successful installation of Magento.

Check this link… it really helped me in solving this.

http://mysillypointofview.richardferaro.com/2010/03/24/how-to-fix-magentos-admin-login-failing-no-error-message-on-localhost/

Note : Editing the core file is not recommended, but you can try this since it works

By: Amber

Amber — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:23:00 +0000

Phew. Thank you. The ol’ cookie domain

By: Sumit Khanna

Sumit Khanna — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:46:26 +0000

I was running Magento in a Linux VirtualBox and both IE8 and FF were giving me problems with not sending the issued cookie (and so a new session was created with each request). Safari for Mac and Windows were working fine though. I was using a DNS like “dev-magento” and adding it to my hosts file. Adding a domain (dev-magento.local) fixed the problem!

Thanks for the writeup! I hate how something that trivial cost me nearly a day of pulling my hair out.

By: Mike Plant

Mike Plant — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:44:09 +0000

I just got this to work form your tips here. Thank you very much. I had to set the sever time and extend te cookie time ad that worked. Not sure why the server time alone didn’t fix the problem but I just extended the cookie as you suggested to a full day.

Thanks again,
Mike