Admin login not working after a seemingly successful install
Hello - I'm evaluating Umbraco as a choice for my company's .NET CMS platform, and I just did a simple install on my development machine in order to give it a test drive. Everything seemed to go without a hitch - database was created, website is there - but in the end when I tried to log in as the Admin user, nothing happened.
I went to http://localhost/ and got the "no pages found" page at http://localhost/config/splashes/noNodes.aspx. I clicked the "Launch Umbraco" button and got the Admin login popup. I entered the admin username and password (which I was able to verify in the database) but when I click the Login button, the page reloads but nothing else happens. I tore down the whole installation and repeated it, but got the same results.
What's up with that? ... can anyone enlighten me regarding what I might be doing wrong?
Also - the description above is what happens when I'm using Firefox - if I use IE8, the problem starts when I click the "Launch Umbraco" button: I never see the Admin Login popup (and yes, I have the popup blocker turned off).
You can use the direct link to your umbraco administration UI at http://localhost/umbraco/umbraco.aspx, to save you having to click on the 'Launch Umbraco' button.
But I suspect there is a file permission problem. Are you getting any javascript errors/warnings? In Firefox, do you have Firebug installed? If so, you can use the 'Net' tab and watch for any files that give an error.
Your website's application pool 'owner' needs to have various create/read/update/delete ('crud') permissions. This is the NETWORK SERVICE user by default (unless you're on WinXP). If you're on a non-production site you might want to just give full control to the application pool owner for the entire site.
Thanks for jumping in to help so quickly ... I just tried it again after verifying that NETWORK SERVICE was the owner of my App Pool and granting this user Full Control - no joy. Firebug isn't showing me any errors on any files.
Yes, I saw that thread (and several others like it) before starting this thread ... During my most recent install, I made sure I had passwordFormat="Clear" on my membership provider tag in web.config before I built the database. The password was always stored as "clear" and I was able to copy and paste it from the database into the login form any time I wanted ... it never helped.
Admin login not working after a seemingly successful install
Hello - I'm evaluating Umbraco as a choice for my company's .NET CMS platform, and I just did a simple install on my development machine in order to give it a test drive. Everything seemed to go without a hitch - database was created, website is there - but in the end when I tried to log in as the Admin user, nothing happened.
I went to http://localhost/ and got the "no pages found" page at http://localhost/config/splashes/noNodes.aspx. I clicked the "Launch Umbraco" button and got the Admin login popup. I entered the admin username and password (which I was able to verify in the database) but when I click the Login button, the page reloads but nothing else happens. I tore down the whole installation and repeated it, but got the same results.
What's up with that? ... can anyone enlighten me regarding what I might be doing wrong?
Thanks!
Also - the description above is what happens when I'm using Firefox - if I use IE8, the problem starts when I click the "Launch Umbraco" button: I never see the Admin Login popup (and yes, I have the popup blocker turned off).
You can use the direct link to your umbraco administration UI at http://localhost/umbraco/umbraco.aspx, to save you having to click on the 'Launch Umbraco' button.
But I suspect there is a file permission problem. Are you getting any javascript errors/warnings? In Firefox, do you have Firebug installed? If so, you can use the 'Net' tab and watch for any files that give an error.
Your website's application pool 'owner' needs to have various create/read/update/delete ('crud') permissions. This is the NETWORK SERVICE user by default (unless you're on WinXP). If you're on a non-production site you might want to just give full control to the application pool owner for the entire site.
Let us know what you find out.
cheers,
doug.
I've had similar 'symptoms' previously, where the formatting of the password wasn't set correctly in web.config. It was resolved in the post here.
Doug -
Thanks for jumping in to help so quickly ... I just tried it again after verifying that NETWORK SERVICE was the owner of my App Pool and granting this user Full Control - no joy. Firebug isn't showing me any errors on any files.
Dan -
Yes, I saw that thread (and several others like it) before starting this thread ... During my most recent install, I made sure I had passwordFormat="Clear" on my membership provider tag in web.config before I built the database. The password was always stored as "clear" and I was able to copy and paste it from the database into the login form any time I wanted ... it never helped.
Thanks...
Hi guys,
Did you solve this?
I have the exact same problem, with the same symptoms: http://our.umbraco.org/forum/core/general/18487-Cannot-login-as-admin-after-upgrading-to-v47
Would be awesome to get some help!
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