Hello -
I know there are several threads on the "cannot login" issue but none of posts seemed to do it for me.
So the problem is:
I have installed drupal, created the database, went to the front page, created the first user, got the password displayed and the email sent. Then I clicked on "login" and that is where the "access denied" appears.
After that there is no way I can login.
The database shows that the user exist, the session entry is there, I can see watchdog information as well.
I have tried few things mentioned in the forums but can't seem to be doing it for me: browser cache issues, query on the session table...Still got the problem.
I have a strong suspicion that this is due to my hoster.
On my local PC I am using EasyPHP1.8 and drupal 4.6.6 and this is working fine.
On the public server - where I experience this issue - I am using:
drupal 4.6.6
php 4.3.2
mysql 3.23.58
Note that an another installation with drupal 4.3 was working fine.
The phpinfo() returns the following for the session:
Directive Local Value Master Value
session.auto_start Off Off
session.bug_compat_42 On On
session.bug_compat_warn On On
session.cache_expire 180 180
session.cache_limiter nocache nocache
session.cookie_domain no value no value
session.cookie_lifetime 0 0
session.cookie_path / /
session.cookie_secure Off Off
session.entropy_file no value no value