admin first time login fail

Hi,

After your ID-less routing, i've encountered a few times (right after a fresh installation), that i cannot log into admin area.

the admin sign in is ok, but it always stays in the client page. Even i force http://localhost..../admin/category/list -> still move back the client home page.

somehow, it worked later that i just don't know.

I've seen that too, running in vs 2012, I can login, I see the administration link but when I click nothing happens. This seems to go away when I recompile the admin project. I haven't investigated further yet.

I've also experienced this issue today. After some investigation I've found that Nop.Admin project and plugins are not built/re-built when run Nop.Web project via context menu by right click => "debug" => "start new instance" in Visual Studio (note that these projects are not referenced by Nop.Web project). But it works fine when you click "debug" => "start debugging" in the header menu in VS. It's really weird but this is how Visual Studio 2012 works (VS 2010 always re-built all the projects in the solution no matter whether they are referenced or not).

So what you have to do is right click on the solution and click re-build or run the solution using the header menu in VS. Once it's done all projects will be compiled and appropriate DLLs will be copied.

Could anybody else please test it and let me know your results?

That worked for me: fresh copy of the source files, vs 2012, right click on solution and rebuild, set nop.web as startup project and hit F5, installs fine, admin area accesible (and plugins installed, including the tax provider, so no errors there).