From 364f3704b0cce0d147336ae2d9328ea95e152b63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Holovaty Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 02:43:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added two admin login-related questions to the FAQ git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@132 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/faq.txt | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/faq.txt b/docs/faq.txt index 7da1759836..24a06d84cc 100644 --- a/docs/faq.txt +++ b/docs/faq.txt @@ -209,8 +209,28 @@ but we recognize that choosing a template language runs close to religion. There's nothing about Django that requires using the template language, so if you're attached to ZPT, Cheetah, or whatever, feel free to use those. -The admin interface -=================== +The admin site +============== + +I can't log in. When I enter a valid username and password, it just brings up the login page again, with no error messages. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The login cookie isn't being set correctly, because the domain of the cookie +sent out by Django doesn't match the domain in your browser. Try these two +things: + +* Set the ``REGISTRATION_COOKIE_DOMAIN`` setting to match your domain. +* Some browsers (Firefox?) don't like to accept cookies from domains that don't + have dots in them. If you're running the admin site on "localhost" or another + domain that doesn't have a dot in it, try going to "localhost.localdomain" or + "127.0.0.1". And set ``REGISTRATION_COOKIE_DOMAIN`` accordingly. + +I can't log in. When I enter a valid username and password, it brings up the login page again, with a "Please enter a correct username and password" error. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +If you're sure your username and password are correct, make sure your user +account has ``is_active`` and ``is_staff`` set to True. The admin site only +allows access to users with those two fields both set to True. The dynamically-generated admin site is ugly! How can I change it? ------------------------------------------------------------------