Windows 7 Chome/IE10 Error - Admin Login Redirect Loop Due To Cookie Lifetime In Admin

[lukebranch]

Hi, I've run into a bug recently when using a clients new Windows 7 Pro machine to try and access the Magento backoffice that causes a redirect loop on the Magento admin login page. You can see the workaround fix here: http://www.yireo.com/blog/1296-windows-7-google-chrome-magento-admin-cookie-problem

I have managed to workaround the bug in the meantime by setting my cookie lifetime to 86400 which allowed me to login to the backend rather than being caught in a redirect loop at the login page. This also seems to apply to frontend logins as well. If this has already been brought up I apologize, however I think it needs to be looked into.

[magento-team]

Looped admin login page is not Magento 2 bug, but very secure behaviour of IE and Chrome with cookies(tagged HttpOnly) from localhost. Both these browsers ignore HttpOnly cookies from localhost.
Issue for chromium: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=56211

Possible solutions are:
1.(very quick) Disable generating of HttpOnly cookies on Magento backend.
From Firefox go to backend->Stores->Configuration->Web->Default Cookie Settings->Use HTTP Only option set to "No"
2. (conceptually correct) Configure apache name based virtual host for Magento and reinstall it. Then you'll have access to Magento through URL like http://magento.local and cookies won't be dropped by browser.

[amenk]

Is there also a solution without reinstalling Magento?

[brianmcdo]

Simply update your host file on your operating system and point 127.0.0.1 to something like localhost.dev

How to:
http://www.readyartwork.com/2012/02/09/edit-hosts-file-windows-mac-gnulinux/