Cannot Log into Joomla 3.x Administrator Back End - Administrator Login Keeps Refreshing.
Today I encountered a rather frustrating incident with a Joomla 3.6.5 installation I was migrating. After successfully moving files and importing the database and configuring the site (configuration.php), I could not login to the Administrator which kept refreshing. All searches pointed to cache files, session tables and .htaccess file as well as checking configuration parameters. I didn't however find any mention of cookie path and cookie domain public $cookie_domain = ''; public $cookie_path = ''; It happened that I had modified them on my local server and these modifications were preventing the administrator logging in when I migrated the website. What made the difference was to clear whatever I had put in the $cookie_path and $cookie_domain in configuration.php and resaving the file. In configuration.php Change public $cookie_domain = 'xxxxxxxxx'; to public $cookie_domain = ''; Change public $cookie_path = 'xxxxx'; t...