Can't log into ACP

[Steve Machol]

AFAIK it has to be one of the following:

1. Corrupted cookies
2. Cookies being blocked by your computer
3. A bad session table
4. Faulty Cookie Domain and/or Path settings

[AaronB]

I guess I'm greatly confused as to how regular sessions work just fine, but the admin session does not. It knows who I am as it prefills my name... so some part of the session is working.

Can someone explain what the difference between regular loggin in and admin loggin in is?

[MooMan65]

It's weird because vB2 worked fine on the exact same server just before I upgraded, so if it were a cookie problem it would have affected most likely both forums, but it only started occuring with vB3, I even went back to vB2 as a test and had no problems...

[dpkm]

Kier's script worked for me - eventually. I tried it without a reboot, and nada - cleaned all cookies, sessionhashes, etc... Did a reboot, and it worked.

[Mike Sullivan]

For anyone still having problems, try this version of the fix_login.php script.

To run this, upload it to your main forum directory and run it from your browser.

########################################
UPDATE
This will not work with recent versions of vBulletin.
You can reset the cookie path and cookie domain using the tools.php file which you can find in the do_not_upload folder of your vBulletin zip file.
########################################

[Chroder]

Your script, Ed, still didn't work

[Sunmoon]

For anyone still having problems, try this version of the fix_login.php script.

I tried to use the script above and get:

Updating cookie domain to ''
Updating cookie path to '/'
Disabling control panel timeout
Rebuilding settings

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: build_options() in /home/virtual/site2/fst/var/www/html/ranger/fix_login.php on line 17

[Sunmoon]

I tried to use the script above and get:

Updating cookie domain to ''
Updating cookie path to '/'
Disabling control panel timeout
Rebuilding settings

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: build_options() in /home/virtual/site2/fst/var/www/html/ranger/fix_login.php on line 17

WHEW! Fixed my own problem.. problem is, I still have Beta 2 scripts and you changed the funciton name in beta 3. By changing it to the right function, this script clearedmy problem and I am now again able to log into the control panel.. thank god!

[Iguana]

Why is it that after attempting to login, the redirect takes me to an archive page and then proceeds to give me a 404? Is that weird...?

[Iguana]

Ok, now that problem is fixed, and I've run Ed's script, but it still won't work.

[Gimppy]

For anyone still having problems, try this version of the fix_login.php script.

Didnt work for me. ANy ideas?????

[Razgo]

it worked for me. however i also noticed after upgrading from vb3 beta 3 to beta 4, my "Add No-Cache HTTP Headers" was set to yes, when i had it set to no before the upgrade. i don't know if that would have added to the problem or not.

[AaronB]

Ed's script worked for me this time... thanks!!

[Mohamed]

thanks Ed it's work now

[Michael2]

I hope I'm not speaking too soon but it looks like it worked for me too! Thanks!