django admin login not redirecting

Question

I am able to browse django admin login page but upon keying in correct login details it will stay on the same login page with empty textboxes. It will show messages if login details are wrong though. I have the following, what ways can I troubleshoot as the log doesn say anything significant.

What the ways to test login on the shell?

Use manage.py createsuperuser to create superuser as I missed the default one during running syncdb

Cleared cookies and retry still the same.

Correct SITE_ID in settings.py

settings.py
import logging 
import pwd
import os

DEBUG = True
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG
DEBUG_TOOLBAR = False
PROFILER_ON = False
INTERNAL_IPS = (
'127.0.0.1'
)

ADMINS = (
    ('Admin', '[email protected]'),
)

SEND_BROKEN_LINK_EMAILS = False
MANAGERS = ADMINS

DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'test@domain'
SERVER_EMAIL = DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL

EMAIL_HOST = 'test'

UPLOAD_ROOT = '/domain/uploads'

 PUBLIC_UPLOAD_ROOT = '/domain/htdocs/public_uploads'

DATABASES = {
'default': {
    'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
    'NAME': 'table_name',
    'USER': 'username',
    'PASSWORD': 'password',
    'HOST': 'localhost',
    'PORT': '',
    # use this to create InnoDB tables
    'OPTIONS': {
        'init_command': 'SET storage_engine=InnoDB',
        'charset': 'utf8',
    }
}
}

#SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE = True

# Setup logging
LOGGING = {
'version': 1,
'disable_existing_loggers': True,
}

TIME_ZONE = 'America/Chicago'

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

LANGUAGES = (
  ('en-us', _('English(US)')),
)

SITE_ID = 1
SITE_NAME = 'my site'

USE_I18N = True

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'media')

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

PUBLIC_UPLOAD_URL = '/public_uploads/'

UPLOAD_URL = '/uploads/'


UPLOAD_IMAGES_DIR = 'images/'

ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/djangomedia/'

SECRET_KEY = 'test'

#SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY = True

#SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN = 'domain'

# List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources.
TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
)
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.transaction.TransactionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.doc.XViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.flatpages.middleware.FlatpageFallbackMiddleware',
)


LOGIN_URL = '/login/'

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/users/main/'
# The URL where requests are redirected for logout.
LOGOUT_URL = '/logout/'


TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.core.context_processors.i18n',
'django.core.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
)


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

ROOT_URLCONF = 'myapp.urls'


TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'templates'),
)

INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.sites',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.admindocs',
'django.contrib.flatpages',
)

urls.py
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),

Answer 1

It was actually due to SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE = True in my settings.py, I had it accidentally defined in 2 places, one commented another one uncommented causing that to happen since the site is not running under https yet. It was silly mistake – user1076881 Apr 5 at 7:27