Why I can not login to magento backend using google chrome

Question

I am using magento community edition 1.7.0.2.I am not able to login to back end of magento.I know this problem can be because of chrome not accepting cookies. But how to fi

Answer 1

the problem is that chrome isnt storing the login cookie, this can be seen by looking at the cookies in chrome | settings | content | advanced | all cookies and site data

there's probably a number of reasons why this can happen, cookie lifetime for sure is one of them..

personally I encountered this problem when running magento in localhost / on a virtual machine and connecting from a browser on the same machine. specifically the problem seems to be that chrome will not store cookies if the domain name is not qualified. so if your domain name is 'http://localhost/magento' or 'http://somename/magento' chrome will not store the cookie and consequently you will not be able to login

here's the fix:

to keep this simple i'm sticking to the example where magento is running on localhost. the same trick will work if magento is running on a vm and you're accessing from localhost, but you need to modify the hosts file on both guest os and client in such a case. (and remember that the guest ip can change so from time to time you need to update the hosts file on the host)

first choose your domainname. it's only in local so you dont need to register. i'm choosing 'dansmagentodev.com'. then in magento | system | web modify baseurl in both secure and unsecure to be http://dansmagentodev.com/magento/

next, in the same place, modify the session cookie management 'cookie domain' to be 'dansmagentodev.com'

next we need to configure your system to know that dansmagentodev.com is really localhost. we do this via the hosts file. on windows this file is in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts. your virus checker will probably try to stop you modifying it (for good reason, disable virus checker while you make the modification). then add the line 127.0.0.1 dansmagentodev.com

And now log in from chrome.