Can't log in to Magento Admin

Question

I\'m having troubles logging into Magento\'s admin panel on one of our staging sites (it works 100% on our webdev servers and was working just fine not too long ago on the s

Answer 1

Need to update 3 things in the core_config_data table for following paths:

1. web/secure/base_url
2. web/unsecure/base_url
3. web/cookie/cookie_domain

use commands like

UPDATE 'core_config_data' SET 'value'="localhost.com" WHERE path="web/cookie/cookie_domain"

and do not forget to clear cache and browser cookies.

Answer 2

If you use sample data:

Change: app/etc/local.xml line 55

<session_save><![CDATA[files]]></session_save>

replace

<session_save><![CDATA[db]]></session_save>

Then: Clear browser cache

Answer 3

We had the same issue and it was due to the server hard drive running out of space. Magento couldn't create a new session and therefore wouldn't log us in. Freed up the space and the issue was solved.

Answer 4

In my case session folder was missing under var folder. I just created var/session folder and set permission to 777, cleared cache and done.

You should check sysytem.log for this.

Answer 5

Having the specific error would help. A couple shots in the dark -

It's worth checking your rewrites. I've had issues moving from server to server where one of them doesn't have the rewrite setup correctly. if servername.com/index.php/admin works, but servername.com/admin doesn't, then you have a rewrite issue.

It could conceivably also be that the base_url is not configured for the right server. Did you change it when you moved the database over? See my answer at this post for details.

Answer 6

I did a simple method. I went to phpMyAdmin then used a new password with MD5 hash. Then successfully logged in with that password