Help! My login suddenly doesn't work!

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Posted by hammiesink on April 30, 2009 at 9:19pm

I opened IE to see how my site looked in it, and tried to login as admin. Nothing. The login form just sits there staring at me. So I re-opened Firefox and tried to login as admin and same thing!

So I deleted all cookies, cache, etc, for both Firefox and IE, and still the same problem!

So then i went to another computer that had never been used for anything before, fresh install of Windows, and same problem!

What gives?

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Did you set the $cookie_domain value

Posted by christefano on May 1, 2009 at 4:56am
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Did you set the $cookie_domain value in your settings.php? If so, try commenting out that line (just put a # at the beginning of the line).

OK well, I don't know what

Posted by hammiesink on May 1, 2009 at 5:31am
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OK well, I don't know what that was all about.

I renamed the folder of the theme I'm using to force Drupal to go "raw." No theme.

Then I was able to reset the password, and could then log back in.

Then I renamed the theme folder back again.

All is good.

I wish I knew what happened, there, though.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Posted by Vincent Groen on June 17, 2010 at 6:44am
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I was about to go mad, but hammiesink saved my day!

I had the same problem and could not, with any browser, login to my site. I deleted all the cookies, reinstalled the database, etc. but the problem stayed.

Renaming the theme folder did the trick!

Thanks again, I wouldn't have thought of that myself.

Back in business!