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#40255 I cannot login to Akeeba Solo after upgrading to 8.1.2

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Environment Information

PHP version
8.2.15
Akeeba Solo version
8.1.2

Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 19 February 2024 07:19 CST

carcam

Hi,

after upgrading to Akeeba Solo 8.1.2 I cannot login to Akeeba Solo.

After introducing my credentials and clicking login I'm redirected back to login with no error messages or similar.

I cannot see error messages in the error_log file either

I have tried with different browsers and a clean session with no success.

Any ideas what can I do?

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Best!!

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

This is weird. I can login just fine on mine.

Can you please try deleting everything inside your tmp folder, and clear the browser cookies for your Solo installation? I am wondering if your problem is a stuck session issue.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

carcam

Hi Nicholas,

sorry for the delay. I missed the email notification.

I have removed everything in the tmp folder and cleared my session but still cannot login. Any ideas that could help me debug the issue?

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Thanks!!

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

Open Solo/assets/private/config.php.

Check the live_site key. It should be empty. If not, you may have a discrepancy between the hostname reported by the web server and the configured hostname which would invalidate the login cookie.

Finally, in that file, check the dbdriver, dbhost, dbuser, dbpass, dbname, and prefix keys. The first one should be either Mysqli or Pdomysql (note the first letter is capital). The other keys are your database connection information. If Solo cannot connect to the database it will show the login page, but it will be unable to log you in.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

carcam

Hi Nicholas,

thank you very much for your reply.

I have been playing around a little bit, and it seems the issue had to do with my server configuration. Not sure why but switching theΒ session.save_path location to the default session location suggested by Plesk, made the trick.

Best!!

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

Ah, that would totally do it. If the session save path in your PHP configuration is not writeable by the user PHP runs under, or is getting cleared every so often logging in will fail. I didn't think about it because if you set up Solo in an environment like this it tells you, during installation, and lets you set up an alternative session save path.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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