Issue Summary I am setting up a new ghost self-hosted site, I tried to make the site private. When I accessed the site I was able to see the dialog This site is private and the password field. After entering the password and clicking on access site, the page redirects back to the password page. B…

Can you try with a different browser, or not in incognito mode, or unblock cookies? The login information requires cookie storage, so if it can’t tell you’re logged in, it’d redirect…

Thanks for responding. I tried in Firefox and yes I was able to login to the private site. I also tried in regular google chrome(not incognito) and it didnt work there too. I also found the same issue raised by someone few months ago in this forum earlier and they have posted a bug request in Git…

I’m glad you’re not blocked. I used private mode just yesterday with Chrome (windows 10, recently updated). So this is not an all-Chrome problem. But it could be an extension, or one specific version or OS, or an especially strict security setting. I’ll check my Chrome version when I’m at my des…

I do have very few extensions on my chrome, but I also tried this in Opera, Brave, Microsoft Edge where I have no extensions or any other third party code which can affect the page. It does not work in any of the above chrome based browsers, it does not seem to be an extension issue but compatibili…

one more update: @Joe_Blocher has already fixed the issue and raised a PR at Fixed: Set cookie in privateBlogging - Update middleware.js TryGhost:main ← joe-blocher:joe-blocher-patch-1 opened 07:50…

Make site private, unable to login, page keeps redirecting on login

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hussainb October 15, 2023, 12:21pm 6

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Make site private, unable to login, page keeps redirecting on login

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