Background: had a working Wordpress 3.7 site at olddomain.com.
I moved it to newdomain.com successfully, and in the process added this to wp-config:
add to wp-config.php
define('ADMIN_COOKIE_PATH', '/'); define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', ''); define('COOKIEPATH', ''); define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '');
original source http://wordpress.org/support/topic/cookie-error-site-not-letting-me-log-in