{"id":1680,"date":"2021-03-23T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T10:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/solved-magento-2-4-2-admin-login-not-working-on-localhost\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T06:12:12","slug":"solved-magento-2-4-2-admin-login-not-working-on-localhost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/solved-magento-2-4-2-admin-login-not-working-on-localhost\/","title":{"rendered":"Solved: Magento 2.4.2 Admin Login Not Working on Localhost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/magento-2-4-2-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em><strong>Magento 2.4.2<\/strong><\/em><\/a>&nbsp;released on February 09, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experts recommend\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/magento-upgrade-service.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">upgrading to the latest Magento 2 version<\/a>\u00a0asap in order to not only leverage the latest enhancements in performance but also improve the security of the store!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, if you might have tried to install the Magento 2.4.2 in localhost and explored the admin panel, you may face an issue like this:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/unlock-admin-user.jpg\" alt=\"unlock error message\" class=\"wp-image-13757\" style=\"width:349px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your admin login is not working properly after installing Magento 2.4.2 on localhost, I can relate!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I faced the same issue and implemented the below solution to resolve it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your Magento 2.4.2 admin login is not working on localhost, it is because the libsodium extension of apache is not enabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Steps to Solve Magento 2.4.2 Admin Login Not Working on Localhost:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Add&nbsp;extension=sodium&nbsp;to php.ini<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Copy php\/<a href=\"https:\/\/drops.meetanshi.com\/SsiAnR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">libsodium.dll<\/a>&nbsp;to apache\/bin\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Restart Server<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of the merchants also reported a common issue that caused the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/solution-to-widget-getproductid-is-not-a-function-error-in-magento-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Widget.getProductId is Not a Function<\/a>\u2018 error on the product page after upgrading to Magento 2.4.2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, share the post with the Magento Community via social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magento 2.4.2&nbsp;released on February 09, 2021. Experts recommend\u00a0upgrading to the latest Magento 2 version\u00a0asap in order to not only leverage the latest enhancements in performance but also improve the security of the store! However, if you might have tried to install the Magento 2.4.2 in localhost and explored the admin panel, you may face an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magento"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21393,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/21393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}