Comments on: How to Fix Magento’s Admin Login Failing (no error message) on Localhost

By: Richard Feraro

Richard Feraro — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:26:32 +0000
In reply to Allan. Have you installed the recent Magento patches? There are form key validation now so try clearing the browser cookies and try again.


By: Allan
Allan — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 07:33:56 +0000
in 2016 and i have kind of the same problem.

I have a magento site.  I used to be able to log in via the admin login page. Now I am unable to. I don’t know what happened to cause the problem but the symptoms are the same as the ones you describe in your post. If I log in with my correct username/password i am immediately redirected back to the login page with no error message. If i log in with an incorrect username password I get an error message saying my username or password is invalid. I have tried many of the solutions suggested on this blog post and others, including commenting out various lines in my /app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Session/Abstract/Varien.php file, making sure that my web/cookie/cookie_domain entry in the database is set to my site domain, setting web/secure/use_in_adminhtml to 0, clearing the var/cache folder and var/session folders more times than I can count, etc.
I hope you can help me. Thanks in advance.



By: Richard Feraro
Richard Feraro — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 00:26:27 +0000
In reply to Zurd.

Thanks :)


By: Zurd
Zurd — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 18:41:05 +0000
Bug still present in 2016!
You just saved me a full clean reinstallation! Thanks!



By: Aditya
Aditya — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:29:47 +0000
Dude ! thanks and your thing works for me.. cheers to you



By: Jon Crane
Jon Crane — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:44:37 +0000
Thanks, the update queries just solved 2 hours of headache



By: Dhaval Akabari
Dhaval Akabari — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 04:32:22 +0000
I got  the following error??
connect error package file is invalid

invalid or empty login for author #1
Thanks!



By: Richard Feraro
Richard Feraro — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 05:34:08 +0000
In reply to Eveningirl.

Undo the script you did, and try my suggestion.

Regards,


By: Richard Feraro
Richard Feraro — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 05:32:28 +0000
In reply to guillaume.
Hi Guillaume,
Connect to your database and find the table named ‘core_config_data’ and search for the record with ‘path’ = ‘web/cookie/cookie_lifetime’. Change the value to 3600.



By: guillaume
guillaume — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:24:03 +0000
Hi Richard, hi guys!
I’m in a pretty stupid situation and I can’t get out of it. Using Magento 1.7, I initially had some issues with the add-to-chart funcion on chrome browser working badly.
I’ve started to try some solution playing with the Cookie Lifecycle time from de admin panel and the varien.php file. 
The problem is, at some point I’ve replaced the cookie lifecycle time value from the admin (3600 to 1), and after that, every time I’m logging into the admin, after just a click I’m automatically disconnected. 
I can’t go back to the default 3600 or any other value cause it doesn’t let me the opportunity to save my change (it disconnects and go back to the login page);
Is there a chance you could help me to find a way to access the admin and having enough time to change the cookie lifetime value I’ve set to 1 ?
Thank you for your help, I’m quite disasperate now. 
Guillaume



By: Eveningirl
Eveningirl — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 01:12:22 +0000
I have found the same method here.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13860936/magento-cant-login-in-admin-with-right-username-and-password

Provided by the user Chetan

I did that in his way and it solve the problem yesterday

however when I try to login the admin the problem happen again

My internet connection is very good, I can easily open the home page and inner page.

it take about 1 minute to login to the admin, meanwhile it is very hard to add the product to the shopping bag, until this problem fixed.

That is very curious.

Do you have any suggestion