Local episerver login just flashes

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  • Last Reviewed: 2019-04-04

When I login to Episerver locally, it just flashes and doesn't appear to fail or succeed. What can I do to troubleshoot this?


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Missing Authorization

You've been authenticated, but you're not authorized to access the episerver pages. Your account could be missing the web editor or web admin groups. Check the database for other user accounts that could grant you access to these groups.

SELECT * FROM [Memberships]

Cookies aren't being set

Your Episerver login cookies aren't being set

These cookies need to be set to use Episerver logins

.EPiServerLogin
EPiDPCKEY
.ASPXRoles	 

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Cookies can't be set

The login cookies can be marked secure using the following in the web config.

<forms name=".EPiServerLogin" loginUrl="Util/login.aspx" timeout="120" defaultUrl="~/" requireSSL="true" />

Any other sites on localhost and not on https can not see these cookies, but they will exist. An http site cannot interact with a secure cookie (including through dev tools). You will need to clear the cookies from an https session on localhost or the domain.