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| author | Adrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com> | 2005-07-17 02:43:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Adrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com> | 2005-07-17 02:43:18 +0000 |
| commit | 364f3704b0cce0d147336ae2d9328ea95e152b63 (patch) | |
| tree | d8a07e90caf09bc046a89f553f5706ef4e4ee0f9 /docs/faq.txt | |
| parent | 2b681e9203a8e7adc1f7b789a6060aa9e37ebea4 (diff) | |
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
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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? ------------------------------------------------------------------ |