Submit Feedback
Legacy Knowledge Base
Published Sep. 10, 2025

Login fails in local environment.

Written By

Bae Helene

How To articles are not official guidelines or officially supported documentation. They are community-contributed content and may not always reflect the latest updates to Liferay DXP. We welcome your feedback to improve How To articles!

While we make every effort to ensure this Knowledge Base is accurate, it may not always reflect the most recent updates or official guidelines.We appreciate your understanding and encourage you to reach out with any feedback or concerns.

Legacy Article

You are viewing an article from our legacy "FastTrack" publication program, made available for informational purposes. Articles in this program were published without a requirement for independent editing or verification and are provided"as is" without guarantee.

Before using any information from this article, independently verify its suitability for your situation and project.

Issue

  • The following error occurs in the local environment, and login is no longer possible.

[SecurityPortletContainerWrapper:416] User 0 is not allowed to access URL http://localhost:8080/web/guest/home and portlet com_liferay_login_ web_portlet_LoginPortlet: User 0 did not provide a valid CSRF token for com.liferay.portlet.SecurityPortletContainerWrapper
  • After clearing the following cache, the same error occurs when I start it.
    • Delete {LIFERAY_HOME}/work .
    • Delete {LIFERAY_HOME}/osgi/state .
    • Delete {TOMCAT_HOME}/temp .
    • Delete {TOMCAT_HOME}/work .
    • Delete web browser cache

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.2

Resolution

  • This event occurs when the Secure attribute of the cookie is set in Tomcat_HOME/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml ..
<cookie-config>
<secure>true</secure>
</cookie-config>
  • If you are not accessing the site via HTTPS, please remove the relevant tags and check again.

Additional Information

 

Did this article resolve your issue ?
Legacy Knowledge Base
Did this article resolve your issue ?