***SOLVED*** Newbie requires help please :) Fresh Install, Customer can't Login or Add to Cart 3 x

Hello,

I have a couple of problems I hope someone could help me with.

Ive just installed a fresh install of the latest version.

I created an account on the store front, it said waiting for store approval. This is set to disable.

I tried to login but it just refreshes and I'm not logged in.

On the admin side it says customer is logged in when on the store side they are not logged in.

Same thing happens in both chrome and firefox.

When I enabled the basic captcha, that wouldn't work either, it says put the correct numbers in even though the correct ones were being entered so I disabled it.

My admin keeps me logged in until I change windows, check the store side after an edit, go back to admin, its logged me out. Its fine until I leave it to look at another window.

When adding products to the cart, it says it was added but when you go to the shopping cart, it is empty

There's no errors in the error log.

Or have I missed some settings Im suppose to enable such as... allow login, allow add to cart ect...?

Please help

I also notice an error when trying to add to cart from www.mysite.com but when I used mysite.com it said item was added to the cart (but it was empty when I went to the cart)

This is a problem if people type www in front of the web address so I added this to the htaccess file:

Below the line:

RewriteRule ^([^?]*) index.php?_route_=$1 [L,QSA]

Add this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.yoursite\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

If your site was configured as www,mysite.com and people dont pop in the www. You will have the same problem.

Redirect to www of your site add this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I found this fix while searching for a fix for my above problems and thought it may help someone else.
I am still not able to keep things in the cart nor can I login as a customer. Someone must know something given there seems to be quite a few people with the same problems yet no replies

Maybe giving a link to your site will help others find out where the problem could be.......If you can that is

Whoops Forgot http://soaptasia.com/

219 people have viewed this thread so Im assuming most of those people may be experiencing the same issues.
Can anyone help please

I deleted it and started again, seemed to of fixed all the problems.

Glad to hear its fixed now.....may just have been a file not uploaded properly but could have taken a while to find if you had to compare each and every file

I'm excited its working now
Thank you

Happy selling