Magento 2 install with baseUrl “http://localhost”: Can't add product to the cart in Chrome

Question

Today I've created a vanilla installation of Magento 2:

• Magento CE 2.0.3
• Vagrant
• Ubuntu 14.04
• PHP 7.0.3
• MySQL 5.6.28
• URL: http://localhost/

Out of the box, when I try to add a product to the cart in Chrome it doesn't work:

• The cart changes to a spinner icon
• The text on my button changes to 'Adding...'
• That's it ...

The same goes for reviews. When I try to add a review, it doesn't work.

However... when I try it in Firefox it works!

Can anyone tell me why it isn't working in Chrome?

Answer 1

Just figured it out! Apparently Chrome doesn't play nice with cookies when they are single-level domain (like localhost). Changing my environment to localhost.dev and mapping it in my hosts-file and changing the configuration of Magento 2 solved this problem!

I'll leave this answer here to save other people hours of debugging and mashing their head on their keyboard.

Answer 2

I face same problem which is mention above, I change localhost to 127.0.0.1 and problem was resolved

Answer 3

Those who don't wish to change the localhost url and doesn't want to add vhost for this problem. Here's the quick fix.

The problem is due to form_key mismatch. The form key which gets posted during add to cart action is getting mismatched with store session form key.

Go to

vendor/magento/module-checkout/Controller/Cart/Add.php execute()

method. and comment out the first If condition.

**NOTE:**This is not a recommended solution for Production environment.

Answer 4

1. Please change localhost to 127.0.0.1,
2. To change directly from database Goto -> core_config_data table
3. Then change secure and unsecure base url

http://localhost/ to http://127.0.0.1

Answer 5

Infact, this is not a Magento issue, it’s that web browsers behave differently when used with a domain name like "localhost" with less than 2 dots in it. In this case the cookies are not saved and hence creates problem.

For this I suggest you to use one of two given solutions :

1. Either use 127.0.0.1 OR your ip address as domain during installation or replace localhost to 127.0.0.1 OR your ip address from base url from database

UPDATE core_config_data SET value = 'http://127.0.0.1/' WHERE path LIKE 'web/unsecure/base_url';
UPDATE core_config_data SET value = 'https://127.0.0.1/' WHERE path LIKE 'web/secure/base_url';

2. Or use virtual hosts from /etc/hosts in linux and C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc\hosts in windows.

For eg : Add below code at the last line of your host file where "project.dev" is your new domain name.

127.0.0.1  project.dev

Answer 6

Try updating the apache2.conf file.

1. Open and edit the file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
2. Navigate to the place in the apache2.conf file <Directory /var/www/>
3. Change "AllowOverride None" to "AllowOverride All"
4. Save the file
5. Restart apache2 by sudo service apache2 restart