title: Can not login to drupal site using Wamp 2.5
body: <p>I purchase a new Windows 8 laptop for Drupal development.  I have installed Wamp 2.5 on it and I am moving / copying the sites from the old W7 development machine to thew W8 machine.</p>
  
  <p>I moved the code and the /files directory and user mysql command line to restore the data.  I then setup the local link in the host file as</p>
  
  <pre><code>127.0.0.1       dev.local
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and setup the httpd.conf as</p>
  
  <pre><code>#
  #   dev.local
  #
  &lt;VirtualHost 127.0.0.1&gt;
      ServerName dev.local
      DocumentRoot "C:\Sites\www\dev"
      &lt;Directory "C:\Sites\www\dev"&gt;
          Options FollowSymLinks
          AllowOverride All
      &lt;/Directory&gt;
  &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The dev site come up and it public facing side (role = anonymous) works find.  When I try to login using dev.local/user - the user login page appears.  </p>
  
  <p>But when I enter my user name and password and then press enter, I see the message "waiting on dev.local" appear and disappear in the bottom left corner of the page, but drupal does not log me in.  Also,</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>No error message is displayed. If I enter in a invalid user name the
  same thing occurs - and no error message is displayed </li>
  <li>And this is happening on three different development web sites on
  this machine.</li>
  <li>I have no problems logging into these three sites on the W7 machine.</li>
  <li>And I have already tried to reset the user 1 password using drush.<br>
  While the drush command appears to work, but I can not login.</li>
  <li>I looked in the user table, and all of the users are there.</li>
  <li><p>I cleared the watchdog table and tried to login. No messages are
  being posted to the watchdog table when I try to login.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any idea what I need to do so that I can login in my sites?</p></li>
  </ul>