Re: Sessions not working. Used to work fine.

Nik Coughlin wrote:
Steve wrote:
"Nik Coughlin" <nrkn.com@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sessions have unexpectedly stopped working on a client's webserver.

PHP Version 4.4.1 running under IIS. When moving from page to page
the session information is lost.

It used to work fine, and the same code works on other machines.
AFAIK no-one has been messing with the box, but it's possible. I've
asked them to try and find out if anyone has changed anything.

The second one has nothing that helps me determine the cause of my problem either.

A minimal test case:

sessionTest1.php:
<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION[ 'test' ] = "Testing";
echo "Test = " . $_SESSION[ 'test' ] . "<br>";
echo '<a href="sessionTest2.php?' . htmlspecialchars(SID) . '">Test Page 2</a>';
?>

sessionTest2.php:
<?php
session_start();
echo "Test = " . $_SESSION[ 'test' ] . "<br>";
echo '<a href="sessionTest1.php">Test Page 1</a>';
?>

You can see what happens here:

http://www.masterpiece.co.nz/sessionTest1.php



Just taking a stab in the dark here: Make sure that your session directory (the directory that PHP store session information) exists.
If you don't know where the directory is see php.ini file

Also take a look at any error log. I don't know about IIS, but when I use apache, I can specify to PHP to send error message to Apache's error log.

Hendri
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