Joomla Admin page refreshes on login

[ixtambay76]

Hi to all!

Currently upgraded my php, mysql and linux server to the following:

RHEL 9
Apache/2.4.53 (Oracle Linux Server)
PHP 8.0.27
Mariadb Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.5.16-MariaDB
Joomla! 3.9.26

After migrating my joomla files and db the web page appears and works well but upon logging in on the administrator page the page just refreshes and nothing happens after. The admin page shows an error when I input an incorrect credentials but nothing happens when I input the right one.

Thanks in advance for those who would help me figure this out. Thanks.

[AMurray]

What is the error you're seeing (provide a screenshot please....)

How did you "migrate your files and db"? Do you mean copy your website?

Did you follow this process? https://docs.joomla.org/Copying_a_Joomla_website

[ixtambay76]

hi! via ftp and restore mysql dump file. i had been successfully doing it since joomla 2 days. but this is the first time i encountered this problem. no error message appears its just like the submit button when clicked has a # vlue on href. thanks

[AMurray]

Where did you migrate the site from and to? What changed with the migration - moving to a different hosting provider, or to a local host (your PC) server setup? Please provide further details.

Also thinking Joomla 3.9.x may not run well on PHP 8. Drop it back to PHP 7.4? The first release of PHP 8.0 was in November 2020. Joomla 3.9.26 was released in April 2021. I don't see why it shouldn't run on PHP 8 (unless Joomla 3.9.26 wasn't released with PHP 8 compatibility at the time).

Perhaps it's "silent" on the errors because they are just written to the error log file and not displayed on the screen. Check this on your server. The PHP and/or Joomla error logs. To assist further, can you turn on the error reporting to "maximum" (Joomla configuratin.php file and/or php.ini file, and also turn on Debug)? Post any errors you see.

[ixtambay76]

Hi. Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure why but its now working well and was able to update to Joomla 3.10.11. I just uninstalled both php and mariadb and reinstalled them and performed the same configurations that I did before and it worked.

[Per Yngve Berg]

Make sure that the save.session_path is Writable with the new php version.