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

After doing all of that, And leaving all aforementioned solutions in place, still none of that worked for me. I run Win 7 + XAMPP and Magento Community magento-1.7.0.2

I could see the front-end, but no go on the login to the admin panel at all. All attempts were met with Invalid Username or Password, So I started messing with the Model files to debug, and finally changed

\app\code\core\Mage\Admin\Model\User.php line 340

From this :

if ($sensitive && $this->getId() && Mage::helper('core')->validateHash($password, $this->getPassword())) {

To this :

if ($sensitive && $this->getId() || Mage::helper('core')->validateHash($password, $this->getPassword())) {

Since it's a dev box, it will remain optional to validate password hashes I suppose

NOTE: Do not do this on a live environment, passwords will pass every time regardless to whether they are correct or not as long as your username is correct.

Essentially this code does the following if(username = correct or password = correct){LOG IN} - This means if it passes the username it will log them in.

Answer 2

I managed to fix it! I found this solution here: http://blog.chapagain.com.np/magento-admin-login-problem/.

I wanted to know why that fixed it though and var_dumped the items I commented out and realized that the cookie domain was being set to just '/' and we have magento set up under '/shop/'. So I went to the configuration section (having managed to log in after commenting out the 3 lines mentioned in the article), changed the Cookie Domain and Cookie Path to be blank and saved. I then uncommented those lines and tried again and all's working well!

Answer 3

I have found a new simple way to solve this issue. I have spent hours and at the end I have, maybe for desperation, this step: Request the Administration password.

So, go to the admin login page and click on the forgot password link.

Change the password, and now you can login again!

Regards

Answer 4

I had the same issue, and it was all with the localhost.

First i changed web/unsecure/base_url and web/secure/base_url. These both config values were having localhost and i replaced it by 127.0.0.1 . Still it was not working until i deleted all contents of two folders var/session/ and var/cache/.

Now it is working fine.

Answer 5

go to Varien.php app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Session\Abstract\Varien.php cleanup the files of var folder and make the mentioned changes:

        //session cookie params
        $cookieParams = array(
            'lifetime' => $cookie->getLifetime(),
            'path'     => $cookie->getPath()
            // 'domain'   => $cookie->getConfigDomain(),
            // 'secure'   => $cookie->isSecure(),
            // 'httponly' => $cookie->getHttponly()
        );