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Many of us have encountered an issue with the admin session in web servers that are not optimized to run Joomla. Please read below to find out more details about the admin session expired problem.

 

Problem:

 

- You can login to the front end but not the backend or

- Your admin session doesn't persist 

 

You do NOT receive an incorrect username/password message - you are just dumped back to login screen.

 

Cause:

This may be due to save_session_path not being writable on the webserver.

 

 

Solution:

To overcome this issue,

 

1. request your web host to allow save_session_path, or

2. Create a folder chmod (777); put it above your /public_html/ or /wwwroot/ folder and add to your .htaccess file this line:

php_value session.save_path '/herepath/to/Jooma/newwriteablefolder'

the path to Joomla should be the same as your mosConfig_absolute_path with the additional folder added. No trailing backslash added