Can’t Login to My Second Website (Multisite)
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Hello,
I installed WordPress multisite and after I added my second website I am getting the following error when I try to access the dashboard:
ERROR: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress.
Here is what I have done so far:
1. I added the subdomain with my hosting provider (secondsite.mainsite.com)
2. Added the nameserver information to my domain hosting provider (secondsite.com)
a. Also added the server site IP address to the domain A record)
3. I did some research and deleted my cache, cookies and history with no luck.
4. I can access the website if I type in the domain (secondsite.com), but one I try to login, I get the same error.
5. I also tried adding a redirect (secondstie.com to point to secondsite.mainsite.com). This didn’t work, so I removed it.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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You have a cookie configuration problem. My guess is that you have COOKIE_DOMAIN defined in wp-config.php. How did you configure your second sites domain? Did you just edit siteurl or did you use a plugin.
Edit: You should be able to log into your second site with the original subdomain url – secondsite.mainsite.com/wp-admin.
If you are using the MU Domain Mapping plugin, then the configuration should be straightfoward. What problems are you having with that plugin? I use the plugin and have my multisite WP configured for multiple domains. The main problem most people will encounter is with ssl certificates for https. If you require https, your host may not be able to handle multiple ssl certs.
I login to https://www.main.com/wp-login.php and when I click the second site dashboard, it kicks me to https://www.secondsite.com/wp-login.php.
I think the cookie_domain is not set up properly:
I do not have anything listed in my wp-config file and my sunrise.php is listed below:
sunrise.php
<?php
if ( !defined( ‘SUNRISE_LOADED’ ) )
define( ‘SUNRISE_LOADED’, 1 );if ( defined( ‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’ ) ) {
die( ‘The constant “COOKIE_DOMAIN” is defined (probably in wp-config.php). Please remove or comment out that define() line.’ );
}$wpdb->dmtable = $wpdb->base_prefix . ‘domain_mapping’;
$dm_domain = $_SERVER[ ‘HTTP_HOST’ ];if( ( $nowww = preg_replace( ‘|^www\.|’, ”, $dm_domain ) ) != $dm_domain )
$where = $wpdb->prepare( ‘domain IN (%s,%s)’, $dm_domain, $nowww );
else
$where = $wpdb->prepare( ‘domain = %s’, $dm_domain );$wpdb->suppress_errors();
$domain_mapping_id = $wpdb->get_var( “SELECT blog_id FROM {$wpdb->dmtable} WHERE {$where} ORDER BY CHAR_LENGTH(domain) DESC LIMIT 1” );
$wpdb->suppress_errors( false );
if( $domain_mapping_id ) {
$current_blog = $wpdb->get_row(“SELECT * FROM {$wpdb->blogs} WHERE blog_id = ‘$domain_mapping_id’ LIMIT 1”);
$current_blog->domain = $dm_domain;
$current_blog->path = ‘/’;
$blog_id = $domain_mapping_id;
$site_id = $current_blog->site_id;define( ‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, $dm_domain );
$current_site = $wpdb->get_row( “SELECT * from {$wpdb->site} WHERE id = ‘{$current_blog->site_id}’ LIMIT 0,1” );
$current_site->blog_id = $wpdb->get_var( “SELECT blog_id FROM {$wpdb->blogs} WHERE domain='{$current_site->domain}’ AND path='{$current_site->path}'” );
if ( function_exists( ‘get_site_option’ ) )
$current_site->site_name = get_site_option( ‘site_name’ );
elseif ( function_exists( ‘get_current_site_name’ ) )
$current_site = get_current_site_name( $current_site );define( ‘DOMAIN_MAPPING’, 1 );
}I have three sites on WP MU, and I had this cookie issue when I created the third. The second one was on subdomain, but the third one was on its own domain.
I mapped the new domain via my hosting provider, added the site – and ran into the cookie problem.
I have looked through several manuals, made changes to wp-config and broke my first two sites. ?? Now I could log in into the third site which was on it’s own domain, but couldn’t log in into the primary site. No errors, just wouldn’t log me in. The worst thing was that the network dashboard was on the primary site, and I just couldn’t get into it.
So I recreated the wp-config from scratch (do not forget to add the lines to allow multisite, of course). Then I activated the MU plugin and refreshed/upgraded the network from the network dashboard.
I didn’t copy sunrise.php anywhere and didn’t define it in wp-config. Simply turned the plugin on. And somehow it fixed the issue.I suppose it won’t hurt to try the same.Sorry, I didn’t check everything afresh. I cannot access the secondary site now. ?? Will try to follow the manual for MU plugin. ??
UPD: I did the plugin setup as per its manual, added the new domain in its Domains registry, and now everything works fine.
See this manual, if you haven’t yet (although I think you have, but just in case): https://ottopress.com/2010/wordpress-3-0-multisite-domain-mapping-tutorial/ The images are of old design, but it doesn’t change the content.
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