[Resolved] Problem with session on windows server

Alex_B

Hi,
I do have interesting problem and can not figure out what is wrong. I have written basic login script that evaluates customer log him in on success or send response back to the login script with error message.
I am using session to keep error message.
My problem is that I have been working on my personal machine and all sessions worked just fine. Then I have moved everything on one of my unix provider and it works there as well. Yet when I moved this script to windows server that runs php the sessions do not work. I have noticed that every time I am trying to send response back, the session id changes meaning that it is being created again.
I am not sure what is going on since it works fine on local box and unix machine I believe that there is something extra that I have to do for windows server.
Any ideas?

Maller

This is kinda of a long shot, but you said the problem was on your windows box. I read some where that if you have zone alarm installed, it can could cause a problem with sessions.
If you don´t have ZL installed, try looking at any other security programs that are running.
Hope this can help you some how😐

Maller

tsinka

Hi,

additionally, check if the session settings are different on the Windows server (if e.g. session.auto_start is set to Off or if session.use_cookies is Off or something like that).

How does your the look like that deals with the session data ?

Thomas

Alex_B

session.auto_start is set to 0 on windows server , but so is on Linux server and my local machine, yet it works there.
Also session.use_cookies is on.
Unfortunately I do not have an access to window server as it is my hosting provider (catalog.com).
I have asked them to grant all rights where I am suppose to write session id, but that did not help either.
I have browsed through threads here on forum and could not find definite answer to the problem.
Any other ideas?

Alex_B

I think i found the solution.
Apperently it is known bug in windows. To get around it I had to
change this line
session_start();

if (isset($SessID)){ session_id($SessID); }
session_start();
header("Cache-control: private"); // IE 6 Fix.
setcookie("SessID", session_id(), time() + 3600);

That had fixed my problem.
Good luck to everybody and thank you for the advice