did you turn pretty url's on when you were last in the dashboard? this sounds like a problem someone else had after doing that.

Again - we are loging in, URL's are turned OFF, clicking on Sidewide settings - entering USERNAME and PASS page again. That is the loop!

who are you logging in as, admin i assume?
You can't get to ANY page in the dashboard or just some?

Can you edit pages on the front end? or as soon as you login you can't hit any page without this?

weird.

First of all, thank you a lot for your help.
Then step by step.

1) We have only one login name - ADMIN.
2) The problem of going to the login page is acting on random basis. At the same time the page address is viewed correctly in browser but the page itself is Login and pass page.
3) SOMEtimes after entering the settings and throwing out on the login and pass page we can press ENTER 3-5 times at the address bar and SOMETIMES we enter the Settings page. But only sometimes.

Has anyone resolved this yet? I'm having the same issue. I go to the site, click the login link, use Admin and my password and it doesn't fail per se (no error), but it just shows the login screen again.

I sometimes can manually go to the dashboard page, but usually when I click another page, I get returned to the login screen.

Thanks for any help.

Did you try "admin", not "ADMIN"
- Also you may want to use the reset password feature.
If email doesn't send out on your box, you can still get the new password by looking in the "Logs" table in the db.

-- I just re-read the post, looks like your problem is a bit more messy than just access denied.

You may want to check that you have cookies (on your browser) & sessions (in php) enabled. Also clear your cache, close down your browser & delete your cookies.

I have also seen on rare occasions the directory that php is set to store session info is either full or the disk does not have any room left on it. That may cause some similar funkyness.

try printing out:

in the theme's footer:
/concrete/themes/default/elements/footer.php

That may give you some extra info to see if things are being set.

And in footer. Under admin session.

-------Successful login---------

array(10)
{
["uGroups"]=> array(3)
{
[2]=> string(16) "Registered Users"
[3]=> string(14) "Administrators"
[1]=> string(5) "Guest" }
["uID"]=> string(1) "1"
["uName"]=> string(5) "admin" ["superUser"]=> bool(true) ["uBlockTypesSet"]=> bool(false) ["uOnlineCheck"]=> int(1235686794) ["uLastOnline"]=> int(1235686794) ["dsbSitemapNodes"]=> array(3)
{
[0]=> int(1) [1]=> NULL
[2]=> string(1) "7" } ["dsbSitemapShowSystem"]=> string(1) "1" ["editCID"]=> string(2) "69" }

-------Unsuccessful login---------

array(7)
{
["uGroups"]=> array(3)
{
[2]=> string(16) "Registered Users"
[3]=> string(14) "Administrators"
[1]=> string(5) "Guest" }
["uID"]=> string(1) "1"
["uName"]=> string(5) "admin" ["superUser"]=> bool(true) ["uBlockTypesSet"]=> bool(false) ["uOnlineCheck"]=> int(1235687018) ["uLastOnline"]=> int(1235686801) }

There was a problem with sessions.
local Fixed. hope
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run

in php_execute block.
get the full path to the site folder.
Make tmp directory for example in
full_path/public_html/tmp/
and point session.save_path in php.ini there.
for example
session.save_path = "/full_path/public_html/tmp/"
or
session.save_path = "/full_path/public_html/files/cache_objects/"
Quicker)))
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I am a designer, what I do? 8)))
jommla users have the same problem, thanks to their forums

I had this problem on a new install when a previous install on the same server had been working perfectly.

What happened for me was that I could get to most of the first level pages in the dashboard, but whenever I tried to go deeper (such as dashboard/install/-/packages) it would send me back to the login page - then back to the main dashboard page.

SOLUTION - for me what worked was to go into my Users and Groups setting and add my "admin" account to the "Administrators" group (which it wasn't a part of by default). Once I did that, I was able to go anywhere in the dashboard I wanted without problems.

No guarantee it's the answer to your issue, ugeen, but try it out and see if it helps.

None of these have worked for me. I keep getting stuck in the login loop. Very frustrating. What can I do to get a solid resolution to this?