Session verification failed. admin control/logout

[Mad Professor]

This is a fresh install of smf 2.0.11 and first time user experience, and I'm not happy.
I've google a bit, ran a search on the forums tried a few solutions, nothing hasn't work.

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ERROR HAS OCCURRED!
Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again.
I can login in, but I can not access the admin control panel nor log-out without being greeted with this error.

I've tried
Deleting cookies (client side)
clearing cache (both sides.)
changing the cookie (server side)
Used repair_settings.php (didn't work at all.)
Reinstalled unchecked Database saved sessions or whatever it's called.
Change the session.hash_bits_per_character to 6
Disabled mod_security
Used a different browser IE/chrome

Without logging I have no idea what is wrong.

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PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.14
Apache/2.4.7
mysqld  Ver 5.5.46-0ubuntu0.14.04.2


Also could forums.subdomain.domain.tld be the problem, it's only temporary until I get old live site domains transferred to the new servers.

[Mad Professor]

Ok, so I see what the problem is, I spun up a digitalocean droplet and went through everything one at time.

The problem seems to be

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session.cookie_secure = true
changed to false.

I had it on with the intent to ssl the server soon.