We launched new forums in March 2019—join us there. In a hurry for help with your website? Get Help Now!
MODX Community Forums Archive

login loop

    • 2366
    • 4 Posts
    atmear Reply #1, 20 years, 2 months ago
    Hey guys - I have modx installed at www.devspacehosting.com/modx and when I go to http://www.devspacehosting.com/modx/manager/ and try to log in, i use admin and the password I gave it during setup... It looks like it is going to login, but it just refreshes back to the login screen. In other words, it loops and I have no idea what to do from here?

    Any ideas?
      • 28042 ☆ A M B ☆
      • 24,524 Posts
      sottwell Reply #2, 20 years, 2 months ago
      Did you rename both ht.access files to .htaccess? I’ve had that happen when I forgot to rename the ht.access file in the manager folder.
        Studying MODX in the desert - http://sottwell.com
        Tips and Tricks from the MODX Forums and Slack Channels - http://modxcookbook.com
        Join the Slack Community - http://modx.org
        • 2366
        • 4 Posts
        atmear Reply #3, 20 years, 2 months ago
        i did not have the one in the manager folder renamed... although now that I have changed both, I am still in the login loop.

        very wierd. I thought maybe it had something to do with installing in into a sub dir, so I erased everything and reinstalled in the root. Same issue. Both in FF and IE the login loops.
          • 28042 ☆ A M B ☆
          • 24,524 Posts
          sottwell Reply #4, 20 years, 2 months ago
          Do you have cookies enabled for your site?
            Studying MODX in the desert - http://sottwell.com
            Tips and Tricks from the MODX Forums and Slack Channels - http://modxcookbook.com
            Join the Slack Community - http://modx.org
            • 2366
            • 4 Posts
            atmear Reply #5, 20 years, 2 months ago
            New to this...

            Is that a manual settings change? Cookies are enabled in both FF and IE.

            I have not modified anything outside of installing it and changing the ht.access to .htaccess
              • 2366
              • 4 Posts
              atmear Reply #6, 20 years, 2 months ago
              Anyone have any ideas?

              Sorry to be a bother - Really want to see what I can accomplish with this app.
                • 17415
                • 1 Posts
                lolenik Reply #7, 17 years, 7 months ago
                I’m having the same problem. It’s very weird because for me it actually logs in, but takes me back to the login screen. If I click ’Forgot password,’ it actually takes me into the Manager.

                If anyone has a resolution to this it would be appreciated. Perhaps I can just edit the login screen so that it redirects after a successful login - anyone know how I can do that?
                  • 36933
                  • 35 Posts
                  bradelaide Reply #8, 17 years, 7 months ago
                  Hi All,

                  I know Jack about php really, but I had this same problem. It has only started happening in the last day or two.

                  After checking the phpinfo on my server I noticed that Register Globals is not set to off by default and I had a php.ini file which was setting it to off before .. because my host had it set to on. I have removed this php.ini file and all is ok now. I did notice that my php version is 5.2.9 which has a build date of March 14. So am thinking this is about the time I started having problems.

                  try it out to see if it fixes for you.
                  Brad