PHP 4.3 + Apache 2.0 = No Sessions

troozers

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Hi Forum,

I have recently taken a leap and installed Apache 2.0.44 and PHP 4.3.1 on Linux -- within seperate directories so I can keep my healthy happy and working Apache 1.3+PHP 4.2.3 setup.

(NEW=Apache 2.0 + PHP 4.3.1
OLD = Apache 1.3 + PHP 4.2.3)

All seems to work, but when I try and browse to some pages I have created via the NEW configuration the session management seems not to work properly. I am able to log into my screen via sessions $SESSION['username'], $SESSION['password'] and $_SESSION['logged_in'] - and I can query these within the page they were created in -- as soon as I browse out of that page, they seem no longer to be accessible.

The same pages within the OLD environment works fine.

I have included my build statements for both these below -- I have also copied the PHP.INI file from the OLD environment to the NEW to see if this worked -- no joy there though.

Any help MOST appreciated.

Cheers,

Andy.

Apache 2.0 Build
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache \
--enable-so\
--enable-cgi\
--enable-info\
--enable-rewrite\
--enable-speling\
--enable-usertrack\
--enable-deflate \
--enable-ssl\
--enable-mime-magic

PHP 4.3.1 Build
./configure
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache-2.0/bin/apxs
--with-mysql
--prefix=/usr/local/apache-2.0/php
--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache-2.0/php
--enable-track-vars
--enable-force-cgi-redirect
--disable-cgi
--with-gettext
--with-gdbm=/usr/lib
--with-gd=/usr
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib
--with-png-dir=/usr/lib
--enable-calendar
--enable-ftp
--with-ldap
--with-unixODBC
--enable-magic-quotes
--with-apache2=../httpd-2.0.44

dalecosp

Just a thought, check the session_cookie path, and check the permissions on that dir, they must be writable by the web server. On my servers, it's just /temp....

troozers

hi dalescop,

good call and one I hadn't thought of... unfortunately no dice -- all rights are present and correct.

I did some more looking at this, and by accident have found that bizarrely this problem only occurs when using my Opera 7.0 browser on the NEW environment. IE 6.0 works fine with both NEW and OLD environments... Opera 7.0 works with the OLD but not the NEW.

I have checked the Apache httpd.conf file to make sure the BrowserMatch statements dont do anything stupid ... and I cant' see any problems -- and the OLD and NEW httpd.conf's are almost exactly the same

BrowserMatch "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive
BrowserMatch "MSIE 4.0b2" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "RealPlayer 4.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "Java/1.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "JDK/1..0" force-response-1.0

As before -- any help GREATLY appreciated

Andy

dalecosp

Hmm, I'm probably no help, then 🙁

My only thoughts at this point: check Opera's user-agent string (they may well have changed it, have you seen the hype about m$'s sites & Opera) against your httpd.conf, and maybe check the browser's cookie settings. Of course, if cookies are not being accepted, then PHP should propagate the SESSID via the URL, right? Wonder if Opera's taking the cookies but not giving them back?

I'm so stupid...