all i can think of here, you could be calling start_session twice in the same page ? also init set the session timeout to an hour or so
-----Original Message----- From: Puiu Hrenciuc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 10:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Sessions, sessions and... sessions Hello, I am a little desperate right now since I have tried to solve this problem for 3-4 days now. I have developed a site that uses sessions for user authentication and data storage between page access. The development server is Apache1.3.24/MySQL4.1.0/PHP4.3.3/Win XP Pro The release server is Apache1.3.27/MySQ3.2.25/PHP4.3.1/Linux 2.4.25 The site is working just fine on the development server, but when uploading on release server it keeps losing session data and the users are logged out of their account in a randomly manner. I can't reproduce the behaviour since it is all randomly, for eg. the session may expire immediately but it can also last 30-40 min. It does not expire on same page every time. I have tried to see if it is a browser related issue so I have loaded the page into IE6, NN7, OPERA7 but the problem persisted. Next step I thought that it could be a process on the release server that deletes files on /tmp so I have changed the session_save_path to another dir, same problem. Now I have made some functions and keep the sessions in a MySQL database. It works fine on the development server, but... , BUT... , it has the same behaviour on the release server. Using MySQL storage I have discovered the PHP changes SIDs randomly ( at least so it seems ) so the session's data is not lost ( the MySQL record is there, and the data field is ok, all variables are there kindly waiting to be read by PHP :) ), but new sessions are created for same connection so I think this is PHP or Cookies related. If you would like to see the phpinfo() snapshots: Development server : http://www.pur.ro/devphpinfo.htm Release server : http://www.pur.ro/relphpinfo.htm Can someone please help me, coz' my hair is turning white and I'm too young to die :) Thanks, Puiu Hrenciuc. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
