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PHP using sessions

Posted by Gigaron, 12-24-2007, 02:49 AM

www.domain.com = Lighttpd + php-cgi upload.domain.com = Apache + php A user logs into www.domain.com and PHP creates a session. When the user follows a link to upload.domain.com it will think the user is not logged in and asks the user to re-logon again. Both webservers and php are on the same server. How can I resolve this? Thanks.

Posted by dmspilot, 12-27-2007, 01:22 AM

Probably your cookie is being set for www.domain.com so the browser will not send it to upload.domain.com. Look at your cookies in Firefox to check. See the session.cookie_domain ini settings or pass the sessionid in the query string.

Posted by Jatinder, 12-27-2007, 03:42 AM

Step 1 Set session.cookie_domain to ".domain.com" in your php.ini or put the below line in your .htaccess file. Step 2 Implement database backed session handler. That is, store session data in a database.

Posted by Gigaron, 12-27-2007, 03:43 AM

Thanks all. I got this working by creating a temporary cookie and a mysql db.

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