PHP 4.0 Bug #3844: sessions not being recognized

From: ajprice@uiuc.edu Operating system: linux 2.2.12-20 PHP version: 4.0 Beta 4 Patch Level 1 PHP Bug Type: Misbehaving function Bug description: sessions not being recognized I am using phpb4pl1 as a statically compiled module with apache 1.3.12. I configured php as follows: CFLAGS="-O2 -DEAPI" \ ./configure \ --disable-debug \ --with-mysql \ --with-unixODBC=/usr/local/unixODBC The problem I am having is that the following script is not running as expected on my machine. However, I know that this scripts runs correctly on a win98 box with phpb4 (or perhaps phpb4pl1, i'm not sure, it's not my box). ********* <? session_start(); if(!$m){ echo "<br>registering m"; $m="first time"; session_register('m'); //only gets called the first time the page is loaded } echo ' <html><head><title>test</title></head><body> <form action="me.php" method="post"> new m: <input type="text" name="new_m"><br> set m: <input type="radio" name="set_m"><br> <input type="submit" value="submit"> </input> </body> </html> '; if($set_m){ $m=$new_m; echo "<br>m: $m"; }else{ echo "<br>m: $m"; } ?> ************ On my machine, everytime I click submit or reload the page, a new session is created instead of using the session created the first time the page is loaded. The session related options from my php.ini file are as follows: session.save_handler = files session.save_path = /tmp session.use_cookies = 1 session.name = PHPSESSID session.auto_start = 0 session.cookie_lifetime = 0 session.cookie_path = / session.cookie_domain = session.serialize_handler = php session.gc_probability = 1 session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 session.referer_check = 1 session.entropy_length = 0 session.entropy_file = session.cache_limiter = nocache session.cache_expire = 180 Thanks in advance.