You can tell that the pass/user combo has been accepted because there are no error messages when the page refreshes. Try typing in the wrong password and you WILL see an error message.

That’s not the problem here. The pass/user combo is valid.

I have gone into PHPMyAdmin and ensured that jos_plugins > User – Joomla! is set to ’1′. The site is also ‘live’ according to PHPMyAdmin.

So the user/pass is valid and these two ‘fixes’ (which have been recommended to many in forums are not relevant.

This is a ‘local’ install using XAMPP, not a web install. I have already started over from scratch twice, and I have already used the standard copy and paste text that creates a new user with the MD5-hashed password ‘secret’. None of these things have helped.

I don’t see the point in starting over a third time if there is no solution to this almost random inability to log in.

I note that this problem crops up when I change anything in ‘Global Settings’ when I am successfully logged into the Joomla back-end.
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