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

Need to update 3 things in the core_config_data table for following paths:

1. web/secure/base_url
2. web/unsecure/base_url
3. web/cookie/cookie_domain

use commands like

UPDATE 'core_config_data' SET 'value'="localhost.com" WHERE path="web/cookie/cookie_domain"

and do not forget to clear cache and browser cookies.