Admin login problem in IE 6 & 7 (not Firefox)

  • My install works fine in Firefox, but the admin login page does not work in MSIE 6 or 7 — no error message, just a redirect back to the login screen with the username and password blanked out. Firefox sets the cookie just fine, MSIE does not create one at all.

    My server config: LAMPP with Apache 2, MySQL 5, PHP 5
    running on an intranet subdomain like machine.domain.org/blog/

    Things I’ve tried:
    – Searching FAQs and forums (IE, login, subdomain, cookie)
    – Verifying cookies are allowed
    – Frequent cache clearing & cookie dumping
    – Making the site a trusted site with lowest security settings in MSIE
    – uninstalling and removing all plugins
    – using the default template
    – Upgrading WordPress from 2.1 to 2.1.3
    – upping PHP memory to 64 mb
    – checking the server time
    – applying code fix #2373 (Login form fix for multi domains)

    I see references to similar login problems from others users over the last few months, but the tickets are all closed, mostly as invalid or worksforme.

    I have Typo3 and Drupal installs on the same server (parallel folders, same domain) and have had absolutely no trouble with logins or redirects for those applications in any browser.

    I’ll have to dump WordPress if this issue can’t be resolved, as MSIE is the browser set up on all intranet user machines, and they don’t have install priviledges.

    Any hints?

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  • Same here, it just redirects back to the login screen with the username and password blanked out after a succesful login.
    I’ve tried about the same things, but none seem to work
    My blog is installed domain.com/blog
    When i look at my cookies wordpressuser has path: /blog
    and the wordpresspass has the path: /
    Could this be the problem?

    Any suggestion?

    If the host/domain name has an underscore in it IE 6 (and IE5 with up to date security patches) will not send session cookies to it because it does not have a valid name (underscores are illegal in TCP/IP host names), whereas Firefox doesn’t care.. I think IE7 is also strict about hostnames too.

    This appears to be the same problem as unresolved topics 96665, 77207, and 112705. Commenters cannot register or log in nor can the admin login when using MSIE7. No problem with Firefox.

    Using MSIE, If I try use login link on the sidebar of the main page, I’m directed to the login screen, and when I enter the ID and password, it simply clears and re-presents the login page. If I click on the comments link at the bottom of an entry, and then click on the “You must be logged in to post a comment” link, an attempted login takes me back to the original blog entry.

    My blog does not have any underscores in the domain, does not use iframe, and does not use redirects or domain masking. I’m still running 2.0.5 on a GoDaddy Linux hosting account and am trying to decide whether to upgrade to 2.2.1, but the list of fixes does not include this problem. I like WordPress, but if MSIE users are essentially restricted to read-only, it may make more sense for me to use the time to migrate to a different package than to bother upgrading.

    If this is a WordPress problem, is anyone working on it? If it’s not, can someone help me figure out what I’m doing wrong?

    Hello,

    I have the same problem and I try the same remedies like emfoley.

    Although I did this:

    – Making the site a trusted site with lowest security settings in MSIE

    IE7 tells me in the status bar (data protection report) that Cookies had been blocked. Why? On the right hand stands that it is a trusted site and therefore all cookies should be accepted.

    I tried all, but allways appears that the browser blocks the cookies from “mysite/wp-login.php”. I don’t have any clue what to do and I am wasting time in front of my computer.

    With “Flock” I was able to login to my WordPress blog. Also with an IE7 on another PC.
    With my PC and IE7 it is still not possible to login…

    I am faced with the same problem in 2.2.2. However, there are no underscores in the url and the problem manifests in all browsers (even in Firefox).
    Anyone has a fix for it?

    I’m having the same problem with all browsers too: IE, Firefox and Opera.

    I have several wordpress blogs (about 6) running from a Hostgator account (Baby Croc).

    I can login to any of the blogs once (after PC is switched on). Second and subsequent logins fail on the other blogs. However, I can still login and logout to the original startup blog.

    Other websites are not affected so this is a wordpress and cookie problem. I think the browser issue is a red herring as it happens across all browsers.

    The only way to login to the other blogs is to restart the machine and login to it on startup.

    Frustrating is putting it mildly!

    Any suggestions?

    Alan

    I’m hoping someone can now offer a solution to this problem…i’m having the problem in firefox, not ie. i’ve looked for the alinks plugin in the plugin folder but don’t see it. where can i find this?

    Reading that other people are having the same problem in all browsers is a relief for me (I am not losing it).

    However, still I cannot find a suggestion or even better a solution to the problem. ??

    just did a small check and it seems that the $_POST array is empty when you submit the login form.

    I’m using the free dyndns service to route my domain name to my server which i’m hosting at home (=don’t have a fixed IP at home). When adding site.dyndns.org to the IE7 trusted sites, the cookies problem disappears!

    However, since the last post in this trail is 3 weeks old, I hope someone else has fixed this problem ??

    Here is the fix:
    “Fisrt I will suggest you Download the latest WordPress 2.1.3 and older versions may have more bugs..
    Just remember to go to your tools tab in your IE browser then go to security tab open, set level to medium then go to and open the privacy tab and then set it to medium if on high login will fail..
    Hope this will help you

    Mark Lane
    SGA Global LLC.”

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