How can I fix the MediaWiki error “Wiki uses cookies to log in users. You have cookies disabled. Please enable them and try again.”?

Question

The problem I am having is that I can not log on to my newly created wiki that I made using MediaWiki. I have searched the web for an answer, and the ones I found did not help w

Answer 1

I had to uncomment the wgCookieSecure setting in LocalSettings.php:

#$wgCookieSecure=true;

only found this after having checked that another wiki on the same computer ran just fine with similar settings. So to debug you might want to install a fresh mediawiki in a neighbour directory and check whether that gives you any trouble. Then you can go thru all the suggestions here as well as the one at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Rg3w5u0e70fs8l4e