Magento admin login problem in Chrome – with solution

April 10th, 2013

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Recently I've been experiencing a Magento admin login problem in Chrome. The problem is that when I enter the correct username and password on the Magento admin login screen it simply returns back to the same screen. This was when working locally using http://magento/my-site as the domain name.

The solution?

Simple. The problem occurs because the domain name isn't a fully qualified domain name and so the browser won't accept the cookies. Simply change the domain name to one with a dot in it (a period for the American readers). Once I'd changed it to http://magento.local/my-site it worked perfectly.