Old cookies fail on new server

Anon

I have a problem with cookies.

No, it's not one of the usual ones! I have searched the forums for answers, but none cover my problem.

In this case the pages utilizing cookies have worked fine until recently, when I changed my local development server.

I moved all files to a new, local server, which runs Apache, PHP 4.1.0, MySQL on Windows, kept the server name, IP-number etc.

Suddenly cookies for my local pages started failing.

The cookies seem to be written OK. There are no errors and setcookie() returns true - but the cookie is not written on the browsing machines and upon return to the same page, the information is not available.

I haven't changed a line of code. The only thing changed is the server... I have traversed the httpd.conf and php.ini for indications of the problem, but found none.

Any suggestions?

Martin

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"The cookies seem to be written OK. There are no errors and setcookie() returns true"

setcookie just prints a header, it does not know wether the cookie ever even made it to the client. Checking for 'true' here is useless.

"but the cookie is not written on the browsing machines"

as in; you cannot find the cookie on the browsing machine itself?

"and upon return to the same page, the information is not available."

How do you check for cookies?

Anon

Vincent,

setcookie just prints a header,

That's obvious, but I just wanted to indicate that there are no visible server side errors.

as in; you cannot find the cookie on
the browsing machine itself?

Exactly. All the cookies set by the previous local server are there and recognizable, but no new ones are found. I tried three different machines, several clients.

How do you check for cookies?

By accessing HTTP_COOKIE_VARS (also tried the named variables). None works even though it used to. I have several unmodified (local) pages which fail now but worked before. The same pages work fine on the live servers, which leads me to think it's a server side problem on the local server.

Martin

Anon

I located the problem... simple, but yet hard to find.

The date on the server was set to last year! All cookies were set with a year old date, and then immediately deleted by the client, because my default lifetime in the script was set to a month.

Sigh!

Thanks for the help.

Martin