Re: [xwiki-users] Problem: Wait for login page FOREVER (cookies?)

Community, Here is my problem: We've been hosting an instance of XWiki for almost a year now, and things have been going swimmingly, until.... I recently came to do some updates on content, etc..... Previously, everything worked well both from the localhost, and accessing through WWW. However now, no matter where I request the webapp from, it's always taking an infinite amount of time waiting for the login page to load, rending EVERY functionality of the Wiki useless, as no one can login, and nothing can be accessed. I tried accessing using IE8, and FireFox, both with no success. IE simply says it's waiting for the page to load forever, FireFox tries for a few seconds then returns an error as follows: "The page isn't redirecting properly. Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete. * This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies."

Now, I had some difficulty with cookies and XWiki before, so I tried playing around with the cookie settings in both browsers to see if this had any different result. I tried setting BOTH browsers to accept ALL cookies, and the same result is produced, IE waits forever, and FireFox quits and gives me the above message. I'm not sure what is causing this, or why all of a sudden this is happening. Seems to me things were working as recently as last week. I did do a Java update earlier in the day, but I don't think this should have any bearing on XWiki. It's being served by Tomcat, which also houses another webapplication, which can be successfully loaded from both browsers instantaneously. So the problem should not be with the server. Also, I haven't done a Microsoft Update in a while, but I don't think this should have any relevance either. Running: - xwiki-enterprise-web-1.6.1 - apache-tomcat-6.0.16 - XP Pro x64 SP2 @ 2.0GHz, with 2Gb RAM - IE8& FireFox v3.5.2