Re: sessions failing to persist

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 12:54:54AM -0400, John Nichel wrote: > Michael R. Wayne wrote: > > >As I posted last week, I seem unable to have sessions persist. I > >have ruled out https as a problem, the following simple script, > >installed as xxx.php will generate a new session number every time > >the field is filled in and "Submit" is hit. > > > >Note that I am not using cookies, the relevant session variables are: > > Session Support enabled > > session.auto_start On > > session.use_cookies Off > > session.use_trans_sid On > > > >When run, the session file appears to contain stage=1 but never is being > >read. > > > >I suspect I'm missing something obvious, any pointers? > > I copy and pasted your code, and didn't get the results you described > above. Basically, it all worked fine on my box (and now I have to go > put my ini settings back to my normal values ;) > > Is this a *nix or Windows machine? Is your session directory writable > by the webserver user? FreeBSD 4.8 Unix. Yes, the session directory is writable and the files are getting properly written to that directory - the problem is that they are never being read (so each time I click Submit, I get a new session ID). /\/\ \/\/