Unable log in to the django admin page with a valid username and password

Steps to debug:

• Make sure that your Database is synced
  • Double check that you have a django_session table
• Try to authenticate
  • Do you see a record being created in the django_session table?

IF NOT

• remove non-standard settings
  • AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ('django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',)
  • SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE = True
  • SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST = True
  • SESSION_COOKIE_AGE = 86400 # sec
  • SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN = None
  • SESSION_COOKIE_NAME = 'DSESSIONID'
  • SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE = False
• Make sure that your Database is synced
  • Double check that you have a django_session table
• Try to authenticate
  • Do you see a record being created in the django_session table?

Let me know if this turns up any useful debug.

Sample settings file: https://github.com/fyaconiello/Django-Blank-Bare-Bones-CMS/blob/master/dbbbcms/settings.py

>>> from django.contrib.auth import authenticate>>> u = authenticate(username="user", password="pass")>>> u.is_staff = True>>> u.is_superuser = True

Is there something else I'm missing?

u.is_active should be True

I had this problem. The issue is that in production I set two variables to True that allowed me to connect to the site using https.

SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE should be set to False if you are developing on localhost http. Changing these two variables to False allowed me to sign into the admin site when developing locally.