By testi@groups.drupal.org on

Internet explorer login problems:

I cant login to drupal sites when there is the the www subdomain prefix in the url.

For example logging to www.drupal.org wouldnt work, while drupal.org would work.

Does anybody else have this problem with IE 6? (havent tried logging with IE7)

Are there other plausable solutions than using htaccess rewrite to enforce non www url version of your site?

thanks!

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Kent Stanley’s picture

Kent Stanley commented

This issue was adequately discussed in http://drupal.org/node/6696.

I was having the same problems with my website http://www.ideasfornet.com, but http://ideasfornet.com was working fine. The problem turns out to be a cookie issue with IE. The problem typically happens when you have already logged on to some other part of the site, with the same or different username.

In your case, try to delete the drupal.org cookie and then try again at www.drupal.org.

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Kent Stanley
Developer, IdeasForNet.com

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

There is a related page in Troubleshooting FAQ

http://drupal.org/node/77106

In short
- either leave your $base_url disabled (with an #) in your settings.php for more flexible access
- or force "www" (or "no www") both in your $base_url and in your .htaccess file
- or a combination, flexible in $base_url and forced in .htaccess

In some server configurations all these would work, in others only one.

i-sultan’s picture

i-sultan commented

I set the $cookie_domain variable to my domain, and things got work,