Re: intermittent session loss

Is there any kind of load balancing on your server? If you watch the session files in /tmp, are they getting erased? ---John Holmes... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin French" <justin@indent.com.au> To: "php" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 2:55 AM Subject: [PHP] intermittent session loss > Hi, > > I think I may have made some headway with my server problems. I loaded the > site onto another account within the same machine, and I can't seem to > replicate the "document contained no data" error at all. > > BUT I did notice that once I login (it says "you are logged in as justin" > across the top of the screen), if I refresh the same page a few times, it > will MOSTLY say "you are logged in as..." but OCCASIONALLY it says "click > here to login"... > > The server does use trans-sid, but in my case, it's using cookies... the > session doesn't get LOST (because it's "back" next time I refresh), but I do > appear to be "logged out" until I refresh again. > > VERY strange. > > To investigate further, I turned off cookies, and tried again... after 5 or > so refreshes, I lost the session ID out of the URL. > > > Whilst I can't repeat the problem on the original account, I have a feeling > these two issues are related. > > > What's likely to cause this? > > > Here's the Session section of phpinfo(): > > -- > Session Support enabled > Directive Local Value Master Value > session.auto_start Off Off > session.cache_expire 180 180 > session.cache_limiter nocache nocache > session.cookie_domain no value no value > session.cookie_lifetime 0 0 > session.cookie_path / / > session.cookie_secure Off Off > session.entropy_file /dev/urandom /dev/urandom > session.entropy_length 256 256 > session.gc_maxlifetime 900 900 > session.gc_probability 1 1 > session.name PHPSID PHPSID > session.referer_check no value no value > session.save_handler mm mm > session.save_path /tmp /tmp > session.serialize_handler php php > session.use_cookies On On > session.use_trans_sid 1 1 > -- > > My LAN server's values (not compiled with trans-sid) are: > -- > Session Support enabled > Directive Local Value Master Value > session.auto_start Off Off > session.cache_expire 180 180 > session.cache_limiter nocache nocache > session.cookie_domain no value no value > session.cookie_lifetime 0 0 > session.cookie_path / / > session.cookie_secure Off Off > session.entropy_file no value no value > session.entropy_length 0 0 > session.gc_maxlifetime 1440 1440 > session.gc_probability 1 1 > session.name PHPSESSID PHPSESSID > session.referer_check no value no value > session.save_handler files files > session.save_path /tmp /tmp > session.serialize_handler php php > session.use_cookies On On > -- > > Biggest difference I can see (not that I really know what I'm looking for) > is that locally, the save_handler is 'mm' (memory?), and on the server, it's > files. And the entropy stuff, which I don't understand :) > > > So, what could cause the session to drop (then kick back in again) by simply > refreshing the page a few times? > > > Many thanks in advance, > > Justin French > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >