Okay, no problem.
Just curious: with your current setup (without session_cookie_domain), what happens if you go to subdomain.yourdomain.tld/manager? If it shows the manager, you should be able to log in and then see this subdomain's content even it the site is offline... could you just check?
Quote from: bohobravo at Feb 26, 2016, 08:17 PMThe thing with the session_cookie_domain is, that when I do this, I'm not prompted to login again, but when I refresh my page, I do get the manager-login screen. When I then enter my data, nothing happens. No error message, only the same login screen. The only way to then get back into to MODX manager, is removing the setting through phpmyadmin.
I also stumbled upon this behavior (but not with your particular scenario). In my experience, when the login doesn't work and just reloads the login-page without warning, it is because the user trying to log in has no access-permissions to enter the manager-context. It happened for a test-user-account of mine, and when I checked, the user-group had no context-access permission for mgr.
But it seems in your case your user should have access. What you could check is emptying your browser cache (especially the cookies/sessions data), or trying to log in from another browser, because the session-cookie in your browser's request could still be stored when trying to log in and maybe this confuses MODX after changing the
session_cookie_domain.