IE Login Problem Drupal 5.X

Classic Symptoms:

  1. Log on screen returned after logging on.
  2. Could not access admin.
  3. Clearing cookies did NOT fix problem in IE.
  4. Firefox login worked fine.

The fix

In the current version of your settings.php file, you may see some code:

if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) {
  $domain = '.'. preg_replace('`^www.`', '', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
  // Per RFC 2109, cookie domains must contain at least one dot 
  // other than thefirst. For hosts such as 'localhost', 
  //we don't set a cookie domain.
  if (count(explode('.', $domain)) > 2) {
    ini_set('session.cookie_domain', $domain);
  }
}

As the instructions say, try commenting out the code and replace it with:

 ini_set('session.cookie_domain', 'yourdomain.com');

Where yourdomain.com is your domain. For example, for my website, I would put:

 ini_set('session.cookie_domain', 'wanderings.net');

Worked like a charm!

Source

Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, And Community Websites
Pro Drupal Development

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28 August 2007, 05:31

Hi, Trying to sort out my login problem. Opened the file but was not sure what needs to got where.

  ini_set('session.cookie_domain', 'mydomain.org');

Does this mean

  ini_set('session.cookie_www.udongo.org', 'udongo.org');
 For example or?

Brent?01 September 2007, 06:37

Not quite. The only customized portion of the line is "mydomain.org". The "session.cookie_domain" remains as is. So for my site I had to put in my setting.php file:

 ini_set('session.cookie_domain', 'wanderings.net');

In the current version of your settings.php file, you may see some code:

if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) {
  $domain = '.'. preg_replace('`^www.`', '', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
  // Per RFC 2109, cookie domains must contain at least one dot other than the
  // first. For hosts such as 'localhost', we don't set a cookie domain.
  if (count(explode('.', $domain)) > 2) {
    ini_set('session.cookie_domain', $domain);
  }
}

As the instructions say, try commenting out the code and replace it with:

 ini_set('session.cookie_domain', 'yourdomain.com');

Hope that helps!

Brent

Miguel?15 January 2008, 09:07

Cool. Solved my problem. Thanks!