By AngelicLight on

Hi, there,

I'm on D7 and had to "reverse" migrate becasue my local box crashed.

So I reinstalled the latest WAMP and did a migrate from live to local the way I've done it before - phpmyadmin export & import, then FTP the files from live to local.

The site comes up locally ust fine.

But when I try to login locally and use the same admin userid and password that works live, nothing happens. The page just refreshes back to the logon page. I'm using a custom theme so I'm not getting any error messages, but I'm also copying and pasting the password so I know I'm not typing it wrong.

Any ideas?

I don't even know where to start on this one...

Thanks so much,

- Paul

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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Patroclas commented

You could start with this...

http://drupal.org/node/1023428

[edit] Or possibly this?

http://drupal.org/node/1157444

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AngelicLight commented

Thanks very much.

The first option seems maybe not applicable - I'm using the same database that I'm using live. I tried changing the password yesterday with another forum post's suggestion to do it in phpmyadmin chainging the format to MD5 (so you don't need the hash) and that didn't work, either.

The second option talks about the "cookie domain" setting beign a problem for IE and I just changed it to the domain, tried it on IE, FF, and Opera, and it's still doing it.

I'm to the point where I think I need to look for other options outside of Drupal, I think.

Thanks so much for the help.

- (A/L)

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Patroclas commented

Can't offer much help on this - assuming you have looked at any server logs?

You could set up a fresh Drupal install on WAMP just to see if that works. I have never been a fan of WAMP and find Uniserver much better on Windows - may be worth trying that instead?

http://www.uniformserver.com/

Good luck!

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AngelicLight commented

Thanks a million - I'll give that a try.

I'm trying not to jump to extreme measures, but I'm thinking a fresh local install just to troubleshoot is definitely on the list.

The thing that makes it weird, though, is that it's the same data on local and live, and the same browsers, which is starting to make me think it's the LAMP stack installation and not Drupal or the data.

I haven't tried Uniserver but I'm going to try it now. This might be the solution.

Thanks so much for this, and I'll post the results.

Take care!