I recently had a problem with users of Explorer and login problems on the frontend of a Magento store. They were able to login using Firefox, but when using Explorer they couldn’t login as a customer. The backend was fine.
I found that I had some configuration issues, primary with server system time and cookies which seemed to be causing this. The fix I found on the Magento forums:
I still scratch my head as to why Firfox users are able to login to the frontend while Explorer users cannot login to the frontend of my Magento installation, but until I can figure that out this fix above seems to work. Increasing the cookie expiration time from the default 8600 to a hardier number seems to do the trick.
Archives
Clients and Projects
Recently Written
- How to Approve New Members with Ning
- Platform Event Services : Web Site Launch
- Add Custom Note or Attribute to Magento Grid View
- Payment Transaction Failed after Magento Upgrade
- 150+ Drupal Themes, Modules and Resources
- Romance Pro at Caesars Pocono Resorts
- A Collection of Drupal Tutorials
- How to Create a Magento Staging Site
- 26 Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers
- Cannot Login to Frontend with Explorer on Magento Store
- 10 Ways to Protect a WordPress Admin
- PHP Announced Winner
- Magento Default Products Sort Order Newest
- Joomla Development Toolbox - Smashing
- How to Check Loaded Extensions on Linux
- How to Change Shell to Bash
- Google eCommerce Tracking with osCommerce
- osCommerce Tax By State
- No Sound with Flash YouTube Embedded Video
- Update Shipping Methods with osCommerce Advanced Table Rate
- osCommerce with SSL Shopping Cart empty
- Increase Category Name Length in osCommerce
- How to Install Joomla FireBoard with Community Builder
- Print Category Name as Title in osCommerce
- Link osCommerce infoBox Heading
- osCommerce Popular Contributions Lists
- Add Product Name to Breadcrumb in osCommerce
- osCommerce Button Generator - oscButtons
- osCommerce Purchase Without Account Database Error
- Add and Edit Images with Joomla JCE Editor
- How to Add MySQL Access Logs
- Blog Post on Choosing a Programmer
- Google’s Social Networking API
- How to Install Joomla perForms Component
- pechenka.info, Oh Those Russian Spammers
- Password Management for Web Developers
- 125 Web Designer Code Snippets
- 5 Must Have Tools for PHP Developers
- Is JavaScript Slowing Down the Web
- Eric Shmidt on Web 3.0
- PHP ctype_alnum to Check Alpha Numeric Characters
- Multiple Version of J2SE Updates on Windows
- List of PHP Frameworks
- Experts Exchange and Other Web Access Issues
- My Joomla SmoothGallery + Lightbox Installation
- How to Move a Joomla Site
- Some Dude’s Rant on Dropping www
- Web Design and the Navigating the Fold
- Display Joomla Menu Sublevels in Flatlist
- SSH Tricks
Recent Entries
- How to Approve New Members with Ning
- Platform Event Services : Web Site Launch
- Add Custom Note or Attribute to Magento Grid View
- Payment Transaction Failed after Magento Upgrade
- 150+ Drupal Themes, Modules and Resources
- Romance Pro at Caesars Pocono Resorts
- A Collection of Drupal Tutorials
- How to Create a Magento Staging Site
- 26 Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers
- Cannot Login to Frontend with Explorer on Magento Store
Recent Comments
- Tim: This is stupid. We shouldn't have
- steward: This discussion assumes "entity_id" means the
- Joro: Same problem, but nothing helps
I'm - Rajeev Jha: You should use a str_replace instead
- ed: Skully, I'm running the same version
- Skully: Could not find any of these
- Joe: I don't think the copy-paste issues
- ed: Sean, what I think I meant
- Sean: Thanks for the article. I have
- Equataloromum: I dont mean to hijack your
Most Commented
- How to Install Joomla FireBoard with Community Builder (21)
- How to Install Joomla perForms Component (13)
- Increase Number of Joomla Home Page Items (9)
- Magento Default Products Sort Order Newest (9)
- Link to an iFrame with Joomla (8)
- Prevent HTML Reformatting with Joomla Editor (6)
- Google eCommerce Tracking with osCommerce (6)
- Add Custom Note or Attribute to Magento Grid View (6)
- Multi-Level User Access With Joomla (5)
- How to Create a Magento Staging Site (4)
One Response
Joro
February 25th, 2010 at 3:03 am
1Same problem, but nothing helps
I’m running 1.3.2.4
I have set locale to the same as the server.
I have set cookie timeout to 86400
I am running on a server with a domain name (NOT localhost)
I have NO problem logging into the Admin backend.
But when I try to log into the front end nothing happens… just redirect to the login screen. Some clients reported to me the same problem. When I edit their account et re-save them, they can successfully login to the store. The next day the accounts expires again…
It’s strange the same “expired” accounts has no problem to login using the form on checkout !?!
I have made sure the browser settings are right, still no luck.
It behaves same on IE 8, 7, 6 or Firefox, Safari.
A few weeks ago it was working fine, and I don’t know what changed!?!?!
It is driving me insane. Any ideas on how to fix it?
RSS feed for comments on this post · TrackBack URI
Leave a reply