At the recommendation of machinehosting.com, I’ve purchased a new hosting service and they have kindly migrated all my files to the new server. I’ve followed the direction on migrating EE to a new server and am able to view the site at the new location. However, I cannot log into the Control Panel to finish the migration process (updating locations/paths).
I’ve seen several posts about this before, usually pointing to a problem with cookies or sessions, but never a definitive answer to what is going on and how to fix it.
I have cleared all browser caches and cookies; tried four different browsers—one on another computer; edited various settings this in config.php as suggested in previous posts on this topic; tried several different CP logins—nothing is working.
Upon submitting my login, the browser just returns to the login page.
Any ideas on how to make progress getting logged into my Control Panel?
Here is my current config.php (which has been following me around for many, many years…) I’m using the IP instead of domain since I have not redirected my domain to this server yet.
I’ve tried both “c” and “s” session types for user and admin.
$config['app_version'] = "261";
$config['install_lock'] = '1';
$config['license_number'] = "xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx";
$config['debug'] = '1';
$config['cp_url'] = 'http://216.243.142.229/rick/renamed_system/index.php';
$config['doc_url'] = "http://216.243.142.229/rick/user_guide/index.html";
$config['is_system_on'] = "y";
$config['allow_extensions'] = 'y';
$config['ignore_templates'] = 'y';
$config['enable_db_caching'] = 'n';
$config['enable_sql_caching'] = 'n';
$config['db_cache_refresh'] = '30';
$config['member_images'] = 'http://216.243.142.229/rick/images/member_images/';
$config['enable_js_calendar'] = 'y';
$config['calendar_thumb_path'] = 'http://216.243.142.229/rick/images/cp_images/calendar.gif';
$config['cp_image_path'] = 'http://216.243.142.229/rick/images/cp_images/';
$config['forum_is_installed'] = 'y';
$config['multiple_sites_enabled'] = 'n';
$config['enable_online_user_tracking'] = 'y';
$config['enable_hit_tracking'] = 'y';
$config['enable_entry_view_tracking'] = 'y';
$config['dynamic_tracking_disabling'] = '';
$conf['cookie_domain'] = "";
$conf['cookie_path'] = "";
$conf['cookie_prefix'] = "";
$conf['admin_session_type'] = "c";
$conf['user_session_type'] = "c";
$conf['require_ip_for_login'] = "n";
$conf['require_ip_for_posting'] = "n";
$conf['secure_forms'] = "n";