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After installing magento can’t log in to admin panel

23 April 2009 28 Comments

Problem Description
While installing magento on xampp version 2.5 you have provided admin username and password. After installation finished you no longer login with your admin account. In fact in the “Log in to Admin Panel” window whenever you provide wrong password/username combination it displays “Invalid Username or Password.” But whenever you provide correct password it does not show anything. Though a new url like
http://127.0.0.1/magento/index.php/admin/index/index/key/d135be4de664ab83db829120740e058a/
is displayed on the address bar.
Everytime you do this you can’t log in to admin panel.

Cause of the problem
The problem occurs because magneto could not store cookies. We run it as localhost and localhost is not true domain but to store cookies we need a domain. That’s why login stops without saying any word.

Solution of the problem
Way 1:
In different forums I saw they mentioned connecting as http://localhost/magento/index.php/admin will fail but if you connect as http://127.0.0.1/magento/index.php/admin it will work. But in my case IP address in the URL did not work too.
I made it work into whenever I changed my browser. Suppose I installed magento using google chrome browser and I open admin url into my firefox window and it worked. Though in the firefox the url http://localhost/magento/index.php/admin did not work, but url http://127.0.0.1/magento/index.php/admin worked fine.

Way 2:
-Go to app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Session/Abstract/Varien.php file within your magento directory.

-Find the code,

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

-Replace above code by,

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

-Save it and try to login to your magento admin panel.
It would work.

28 Comments »

admin (author) said:

hello

# 25 April 2009 at 11:14 pm

johny said:

the only solution that works
10q
if u only comment the lines instead of replacing text take a good look at commas

# 30 May 2009 at 3:46 pm

Joguy said:

Hello,

The second way works perfectly.
The server is windows server 2003 and Xampp.

Thanks you.

# 4 August 2009 at 1:47 am

damith said:

hey thankx
way – 1 st is work for me.
i log into admin pannel with IE using loopback address

thankx

# 5 August 2009 at 1:50 pm

Alex V. said:

Thanks! This was very helpful.

# 6 August 2009 at 9:40 am

Janki said:

Hey Thanx.
It’s work.

# 11 August 2009 at 3:24 pm

Ta Cuong said:

Thank you for topic.

# 13 August 2009 at 12:11 am

phunk said:

Solution 2 is right. There’s only one piece of code block to temporarily disable in one of Magento’s Core files. Found this blog that tells the same remarkable solution. http://markuzweb.blogspot.com/2009/08/cant-login-to-magento-admin-panel-after.html

# 16 September 2009 at 9:38 pm

azerty said:

Great !! many thanks

# 6 October 2009 at 4:04 am

Ram said:

Great help. Second method works perfectly.

# 10 November 2009 at 4:54 pm

Mittal Patel said:

Thank you veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy much…
You saved me from panic!!!

# 14 November 2009 at 12:24 pm

Saran said:

Hi

Thank you very much. Its working very nicely. After login using with ip address, base url warning is coming. If we are changing that value in configuration part, its working perfectly.

thanks
Saran

# 25 November 2009 at 4:59 pm

Rakesh said:

Great work Thank you

# 1 December 2009 at 4:49 pm

neer said:

hey thanx….it was really helpful…

# 12 December 2009 at 2:23 am

N.Karnan said:

It’s really a valuable post….!!thanks…(I enjoy the benefit of Ur post)!!!

# 7 January 2010 at 1:50 pm

Filipe said:

Way 2 worked for me, thanks!

# 8 January 2010 at 10:25 pm

Saneesh K V said:

Hi,
Thank you very much!
It works for me.

Thanks again!
San.

# 11 January 2010 at 12:51 pm

Manish said:

Have seen these two solutions on lotsa blog… both didn’t work for me… (

any othe solution pls ?

rgs
Manish

# 27 January 2010 at 5:24 am

Abdur said:

i get error

Parse error: parse error in C:\wamp\www\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Session\Abstract\Varien.php on line 84

any one can help me?

# 7 February 2010 at 2:43 am

Dawod said:

i have this code in app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Session\Abstract\Varien.php in this file

$cookieParams = array(
‘lifetime’ => $cookie->getLifetime(),
‘path’ => $cookie->getPath(),
‘domain’ => $cookie->getConfigDomain(),
’secure’ => $cookie->isSecure(),
‘httponly’ => $cookie->getHttponly()
);but when i comment 3 line then i got error given below

http://localhost/magento/admin

Error log record number: 1663895226

can any one help me

# 20 March 2010 at 7:13 pm

kajal said:

I worked all the solutions provided for this error
I would suggest if none of the codes works for u than try this one
it worked for me..
None of the above..

In fact, in version 1.4.0.1 you can comment only the line #100 ( call_user_func_array(’session_set_cookie_params’, $cookieParams); ) and it will work

# 23 March 2010 at 7:19 pm

Richard Feraro said:

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

# 24 March 2010 at 7:56 pm

admin (author) said:

Hi,
Note that when you comment 3 lines, you also need to removed character , on the line ‘path’ => $cookie->getPath(),
This is really must be $cookieParams = array(
‘lifetime’ => $cookie->getLifetime(),
‘path’ => $cookie->getPath()
//‘domain’ => $cookie->getConfigDomain(),
//’secure’ => $cookie->isSecure(),
//‘httponly’ => $cookie->getHttponly()
);
Hope that it works for you

# 26 March 2010 at 4:36 pm

Dawod said:

Thanx to all my admin Panel is working now

# 26 March 2010 at 4:56 pm

ThinkClothingArt said:

Thanks to Kajal above, commenting line 100 worked, that was an easy fix that only took a few hours to figure out. Thanks Varien for the great local install instructions on windows
I will try Richard’s too which seems quite comprehensive, but for a quick fix Kajal worked.
Now to figure out this pesky index.php url rewriting issue now that I can log in. Boy talk about out of the box turn key. Maybe they shoudl package up a developer local install instead of having to work all this out via forums.
Cheers Guys.

# 7 April 2010 at 1:23 pm

jason said:

@kajal was abt to give up then i saw ur post thankx a million , commenting out line #100 worked for me too ,

# 14 May 2010 at 12:42 pm

Vo Tan Tai said:

I think you have to comment this this line

//call_user_func_array(\’session_set_cookie_params\’, $cookieParams);

# 21 May 2010 at 8:58 pm

Jaso said:

Hi there,

I am using this simple procedure under Windows7:
1. install XAMPP and enable \"iconv\"

2. edit the file \"hosts\" to this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.com

3. copy the magento files to the directory: C:\\xampp\\htdcs\\magento\\

4. start the Apache and MySQL

5. Go to the address: http://localhost.com/magento

6. Follow the installation wizard.

7. Now You will be able login to the administration.

ENJOY!

=D

# 7 June 2010 at 6:02 pm

After installing magento can’t log in to admin panel

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