If I’m logged in to my control panel, my admin account gets logged off the site.

Then, when I log on to the site as admin, I’m logged off the cp, and the cp won’t accept my userid/pw as valid. I have to log off the site to log in to the cp.

I’ve tried deleting all my cookies.

Background: I moved from my old host to enginehosting about two weeks ago. However, the site seems to be working flawlessly otherwise.

Barry:

So we are on the same page, what are your EE Version and Build numbers?

Can you check your settings in:  CP Home ›  Admin ›  System Preferences ›  Security and Session Preferences and let us know the settings for, Control Panel Session Type and User Session Type.

Also, can you check:  CP Home ›  Admin ›  System Preferences ›  Cookie Settings do you have anything in there?

Perhaps you should try:  .example.com for your Cookie Domain

-greg

v 1.6.1 Build:  20071204

control session: session id
user session: cookies

cookie domain: .coastsider.com
no other cookie settings

the site is at http://coastsider.com

Barry: 

For testing purposes, can you try set your control panel session to “cookies” and see if you are experiencing the same behavior?

Thank you,

-greg

It won’t let me change the setting.  I take the pulldown menu from session ID only to cookies only, click update and it’s back to session ID only.

Some problem on both Windows/Firefox and on Mac/Safari.

Barry:

There are any number of things that could be going on here, but for the first step, I’d recommend that you upgrade to the latest version/build.  Ok?

-greg

Don’t want to step on Greg’s toes here, who’s doing a fine job, but it sounds like your config.php file has a variable overriding the database preference that’s being saved when you change that setting.

But the primary issue here, if I can distill it is that if you log into your site via the front end, that it will not let you access the control panel?  If that’s the case, this is intentional behavior.  If you log into the control panel, you can access your front-end, as you have just created an admin session, but if you log into the front end of your site, you have created a user session.  Does that describe the behavior you are seeing?

That did it. I saw your posting after I upgraded the software, which didn’t fix the problem.  I removed the following from the config file, which I’d added based on a forum posting regarding a similar problem.

$conf[‘admin_session_type’] = “s”;

...and it now works correctly.  But I added this after the behavior manifested itself, so it wasn’t the root cause.

Seems to be OK now.

Wonder if something else was going on, adding to the problem.  Might check your cookie domain- in ‘Admin- System Prefs- Cookies’.  Though… not sure how that would relate to uname/pword not being accepted.

Does it look good for now, or want to experiment a bit more with the cp set to sessions?  If so- and you can duplicate the problem, let us know the exact error message you get when you try to login.

Otherwise- we can always blame the gremlins.

I’m prepared to accept gremlins as an explanation.  Thanks for your help.

LOL- yep, me too.  Glad the guys got you squared away!  If it does quirk up on you again, just give us a yell.