Vbulletin Can’t Login – Solve the Login Problem

Wed, Apr 11, 2007

Miscellaneous, Programming & Code


Some Vbulletin users and owners may have experienced that some users face a problem logging in, especially with Internet Explorer (IE).

Does your problem sound like this: When the user logs in, the page shows the “Thank you for logging in” message, then refreshes, and the user is shown that he is not yet logged in. No error message is shown.

Well, the following 3 steps may help in solving this Vbulletin log in problem:

  1. Close all open browser windows and clear all cookies. Then load your browser and try logging in again. If that does not help, continue with the next suggestions.
  2. Login to your Admin CP, click on “vBulletin Options” in the left frame, and then select “Cookies and HTTP Header Options”. Once there, make sure that your “Path to Save Cookies” setting is set to “/” (without the quotes). If it is not, change it to “/”, save your settings, close your browser, clear your cookies, and try logging in again. If that still does not help, continue to step #3.
  3. Go back to your Admin CP, click on “vBulletin Options” in the left frame, and select “Cookies and HTTP Header Options” again. Check your “Cookie Domain” setting and make sure it is set to “(blank)”. If it is not, change it to “(blank)”, save your settings, close your browser, clear your cookies, and try logging in again.

    If that still does not help, or the setting is already set to “(blank)”, change the setting to “.yoursite.com” (note the 2 dots!). Save your settings, close your browser, clear your cookies, and then try logging in again.

Note: By changing your “Cookie Domain” setting, it is possible to lock yourself out of the Admin CP if this is changed to an incorrect value. If this happens, upload the tools.php script (located in the ‘do_not_upload’ folder of the vBulletin zip file) to your admincp directory. Load the file in your browser and select the option to reset the cookie domain and path back to the defaults.

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37 Comments For This Post

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    May 16th, 2008 at 2:31 am

    Thank you so much for the tip. A client was having trouble with IE6 users not being able to log in to their message board. I ended up having to set the coookie domain to .theirdomain.com and it solved the problem.

    Without your tip, I’d never have found the source of their problem. Thanks again!

  10. Alvin Poh Says:
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    Glad to be of help :)

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  30. Uly Says:
    May 19th, 2009 at 5:54 pm

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    May 20th, 2009 at 1:17 am

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  32. seoblogcentral01 Says:
    May 20th, 2009 at 3:05 am

    Friends,
    I agree that vBulletin share the same member,and if you log in to the forum, the same name is used in the comments.So Login problem occur that even if the user is logged in, the login box remains the same.Thanks for your ideas to solve the login problem.I’ll use them.

    Thanks,
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