.htaccess redirect makes admin login fail

[jlknauff]

Hmmm...that's odd. I cleared everything from FF and now I can access the admin panel in both FF and IE even though I didn't change anything in IE. Well, it works and I guess that's all that matters for now!

Thanks guys!

[SirBuck]

Cool glad it got sorted out. Any ideas as to what it was may be helpful to others if you post.

[jlknauff]

In hindsight, I think what was going on was that the redirect that I had set up in the .htaccess was somehow conflicting with the Zen admin. Yours worked, but the old one was still cached. When I erased the history/cookies in FF it worked fine, but it was coincidence that IE started working because it was the next day. Since I have IE set to erase history every 24 hours, it would have worked fine if I had tried it first. Anyway, the short answer was that your change to the .htaccess fixed the problem.

[boardmangraham]

Hi guys, im having the same problem but this solution hasnt worked for me.

I know for sure its the .htaccess file thats the problem as when I remove the file I can log in admin just fine.

This is the contents of my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

I have the first one set up to route domain.com to www.domain.com and the second one to route http:// to https:// for SSL purposes.

I also know for sure that its something to do with the domain redirect and not the SSL redirect as ive done some testing and the SSL redirect works fine logging into admin.

Any idea what this could be?

[bonnit]

boardmangraham im not sure if you solved the problem you are talking about but ust for reference for anyone looking for this tread having the sae issue, try doing as suggested but also try to access your admin using the trailing slash too instead of leaving it open, this worked for me after days of searching. so the url would look like this www.yourdomain/admin/