Django Admin Login Cookie Problem

Question

Hi all, hope you can help

We have a peculiar problem with logging in to django admin on our dev server---just surfaced today, sept 1st. When we try to log in using staff usernames and passwords we are returned the following message:

"Looks like your browser isn't configured to accept cookies. Please enable cookies, reload this page, and try again."

We encounter the same problem on our local installations: - I was using django 1.1.1 upgraded to 1.1.2 problem with both returning same - Another developer encountered the same problem on a fresh 1.2.1 installation

I read a lot of chatter about setting SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN & SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE, we never had these set on any of our installations and never encountered any problems. We then specified the following in our local installations to no avail.

SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN = '127.0.0.1:8000' SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE = False

This problem just appeared today, yesterday things were fine on local installations, cookie are enabled on all our browsers

Any one experiencing the same? any suggestions?

Thanks,

Paul.

Answer 1

It turns out it was a simple cookie problem using chromium-browser---my profile was corrupt--- which started an escapade of changing settings.py and other things, which broke other browsers etc.

Ah well, solved now.