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I’m using ExpressionEngine v2.3.1 and php5.3.6

I’ve copied the site to a local development site that I’ve setup as
http://loc.airshipventures.com/
(only on my local machine)

The front end is working fine.

However when I try to go to the control panel login, I get
“Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.”

When I look at the page in firebug, it’s endlessly redirecting to itself:
http://loc.airshipventures.com/system/index.php?S=0&D=cp&C=homepage
with a 302 Found redirect

I tried adding the following in my config.php

$config['cookie_domain'] = ".airshipventures.com";
$config['cookie_prefix'] = "airshipventures";
$config['cookie_path'] = "";
$config['admin_session_type'] = "c";
$config['user_session_type'] = "c";
$config['require_ip_for_login'] = "n";
$config['require_ip_for_posting'] = "n";
$config['secure_forms'] = "n";

with no result.

It seems like it’s not picking up the cookies or something.

In my config I also have

$assign_to_config['airship_webroot'] = '/home/ben/sitesperm/airship/site/pub/';

which is the correct path to my local site.

Any ideas on how I can get the login page to work?

Thanks

Hi Ben,

Thanks for posting to the Forums!

First thing, read and review Moving ExpressionEngine to Another Server. Use that as a guide to double check all your URL and path settings are correct after the move.

I’ve copied the site to a local development site that I’ve setup as
http://loc.airshipventures.com/
(only on my local machine)

How have you set this to only direct to the localhost? In /etc/hosts?

Change this in /system/expressionengine/config/config.php

$config['cookie_domain'] = "";
$config['cookie_prefix'] = "";

Just blank it out. Let ExpressionEngine try to sort it out on its own for now.

And lastly:

$assign_to_config['airship_webroot'] = '/home/ben/sitesperm/airship/site/pub/';

If you have that bit in config.php then you need to use the $config array directly. $assign_to_config is for index.php and admin.php

$config['airship_webroot'] = '/home/ben/sitesperm/airship/site/pub/';

In what context are you using that config variable? EE would have no idea what to do with “airship_webroot” as one of its config items.

Just a bit more information and I’m sure we can get you sorted and up and running!

Cheers,

Hi Dan,

Change this in /system/expressionengine/config/config.php

$config['cookie_domain'] = "";
$config['cookie_prefix'] = "";

I tried adding this to config.php. I’m still having the same problem.

Here’s some more information about the setup.

loc.airshipventures.com is setup as a virtualhost in apache:

<VirtualHost *>
 DocumentRoot "/Users/ben/SitesPerm/airship/site/pub/"
 ServerName loc.airshipventures.com
</VirtualHost>

And in /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 loc loc.airshipventures.com

It looks like the directory structure for the site has been customized a bit (I didn’t set this site up).
/pub/index.php
/pub/system/index.php
/pub/themes/—theme files
/sys/—all other ee files
/tpl/—tpl files

pub is the public directory. I think that index.php corresponds to the regular ee index.php and system/index.php is the same as admin.php

pub/index.php has the line

$assign_to_config['airship_webroot'] = '/home/ben/sitesperm/airship/site/pub/';

Also in pub/index.php

$system_path = '../sys';

I can send the config files or a zipped up version of the site with the db names/passwords stripped if that helps.

I tried doing some debugging and it gets to /sys/expressionengine/libraries/Core.php line 338 before going into the endless loop:

// Show the control panel home page in the event that a
// controller class isn't found in the URL
if ($this->EE->router->fetch_class() == 'ee' OR
 $this->EE->router->fetch_class() == '')
{
 $this->EE->functions->redirect(BASE.'&C=homepage');
}

Hi Ben,

Ahhh, yeah, that’s some pretty custom juju with the directory structure, though nothing out of hand.

But that setup leads me to /system/expressionengine/config/config.php

Specifically:

$config['site_url'] = '';
$config['cp_url'] = '';

Double check those values reflect your local domain setup.

Are you running on OS X by chance?

Cheers,

Dan,
I am indeed running on OS X.

I cp_url was set to:

$config['cp_url'] = "http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] ."/system/index.php";

I didn’t see an entry for site_url, so I added one:

$config['cp_url'] ="";
$config['site_url'] = "";

Then to:

$config['cp_url'] ="http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] ."/system/index.php";
$config['site_url'] = "http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];

Then to:

$config['cp_url'] ="http://loc.airshipventures.com/system/index.php";
$config['site_url'] = "http://loc.airshipventures.com/";

Still no dice.

Hey webb_design,

Is this only on a local host or is there a remote host we could login and take a look at?

This seems to be system related but would like to see this in real time.

Thank you,

I’ve moved this onto our public server for you to take a look at. It’s encountering the same error.

I will PM you the creds.

I just tried sending you guys a private message, but it says your message boxes are full. How do I get in touch with you?

Hi Guys,
What’s going on with this? How can I send you the login credentials?

Thanks,
Ben

Hi Ben,

Hi Guys,
What’s going on with this? How can I send you the login credentials?

Thanks,
Ben

As you’ve discovered, we have our PMs disabled because that is not a secure means to send up login details. When we need to login, we send you an email with a request. With that, be on the lookout for an email from EllisLab.

Cheers,