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I have a local development site running ExpressionEngine 2.1.4 Public Beta.

Everything has been stable until I made some changes on the sessions and security page. After changing the settings to allow only one session per user I am now locked out of my system. When I access the control panel I am greeted with the login and when I submit my information it attempts to authenticate and then returns me to the login page.

I checked the sessions table in the database and see my entry from my login attempt. When I delete the entry and attempt to login the same thing happens. Yet it still creates an entry in the sessions table.

Any help would be great, I don’t want to start this one over 😉

Hi Jason—

When you try to login, are you presented with an error that says someone is already logged in with this account? Or does it just return you to the login screen without any kind of message?

Try clearing out the session from the DB as well as clearing your cookies before trying to login again. Could you post a screenshot of your Security and Session Preferences page so that I can try to duplicate the problem you’re having?

Thanks,

Kevin

One thing I forgot to mention that might get you up and running immediate is to add these to your system/expressionengine/config/config.php file:

$config['cookie_domain'] = "";
$config['cookie_path'] = "";
$config['cookie_prefix'] = "";
$config['admin_session_type'] = "cs";
$config['user_session_type'] = "c";
$config['require_ip_for_login'] = "n";
$config['require_ip_for_posting'] = "n"; 
$config['allow_multi_logins'] = "y";

If you can login to CP after this change, then try changing the variable $config[‘allow_multi_logins’] to value “n”. Let me know how your system behaves after those changes.