Cannot login to Django admin

Question

My admin login in development stopped working suddenly. It used to be working fine for almost a year. I am able to see the login page and type the superuser credentials. When I click on the login button, nothing happens. The admin log also does not show anything. I have tried changing the port number and ran the server. I even created a new project and new database and tried running the simple admin page, no luck. I tried running the admin for other projects in development, still nothing happens on clicking the login button. My settings does have:

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    ('django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'),
)

Another thing that I noticed was I do not get a new row in the django_session table even after I login with the correct superuser credentials

It looked like something was wrong with my Firefox. I removed the .mozilla folder and it worked fine — m b
Where is this .mozilla folder? I'm running into the same problem now. — 3cheesewheel
I made a copy of my .mozilla folder and deleted the existing .mozilla. It maybe a little hacky, but it worked for me — m b

Reichert Reichert · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-10T22:19:22

I suggest you to clear your localhost cookies and try with another browser. I've issues with chrome v28 that I don't have in firefox v22. Let me know if it helps. Regards.

-- EDIT --

Try to put this line in your settings.py. It solved for me.

SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN = None

Cannot login to Django admin

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