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Question

I recently moved my Drupal 7 site to a new hosting server and I'm stuck at the login page. As soon as I try and log in, I get directed back to the same page, but the URL changes from /user to /user/1, which leads me to believe that I am actually logged in, but I'm not being forwarded to the correct page.

I tried cleaning my cache, emptying the cache tables in the DB but nothing helped.

Any ideas?

EDIT: To make things a bit more clear, I've used the specific server for various other Drupal 7 sites, so I know for a fact that the server configuration is not at fault here.

Answer 1

In my case the issue was solved only after refreshing .htaccess file in drupal root folder. You can take the source here: https://github.com/drupal/drupal/blob/7.x/.htaccess

Answer 2

Sometimes all you need is to clear the cookies for the domain/website - it's possible you have old cookies alive that are causing this.

Get a cookie manager to help simplify this, e.g.:

Edit This Cookie (for Chrome)

Answer 3

I suspect your $cookie_domain in /sites/default/settings.php is incorrect.

Try making it match your new domain and ensure there's a leading dot .

$cookie_domain = '.mydomain.co.uk';

Answer 4

Other answer might be that rewrite php module is not installed, to do that do the followings:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Restart apache2

sudo service apache2 restart

Answer 5

In my case it was very stupid, on my page.tpl.php, there wasn't any "content" and the page--user.tpl.php didn't get read. Only had the line to show content in the page.tpl.php

Although that it is unlikely that you're as stupid as me. ;) Maybe it will be helpful anyway.

Arne

Answer 6

Sometimes problems relating to logging in after a site migration can be because mod_rewrite was enabled on the first machine but not the second. A simple way to test this is to use the ?q= URL format (http://site.localhost?q=user) and see if you can log in like that. If that works then you can either disable clean urls from within the Drupal interface, or enable mod rewrite in Apache.