Magento admin login not working in chrome but works fine for firefox

Question

I am just a newbie to the magento. I have installed magento on my localhost. After all the setup when I used the admin page to login I can\'t able to login in chrome browser

Answer 1

As the accepted answer pointed out, the problem lies with chrome when accessing Magento on a localhost. Wrap the code in theapp/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Session/Abstract/Varien.php with the following snippet, and the session parameter array will be only reset if you are on localhost (IP'127.0.0.1' or '::1').

// SNIPPET Part 1: add this before the original array definition
// -----------------------------------------------------------

if(in_array($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], array('127.0.0.1', '::1'))) {
    $cookieParams = array();
} else {

    // here comes the original code, thats what you should
    // look for but not touch
    // -------------------------------------------------------

    // session cookie params
    $cookieParams = array(
        'lifetime' => $cookie->getLifetime(),
        'path' => $cookie->getPath(),
        'domain' => $cookie->getConfigDomain(),
        'secure' => $cookie->isSecure(),
        'httponly' => $cookie->getHttponly()
    );

// SNIPPET Part 2: add the closing bracket
// ------------------------------------------

}