note 80828 rejected from ref.session by james

Note Submitter: webm dot blessedwithoutlimits dot com ---- Please help me figure out why I can't get cookies set up. I recently changed my site to use sessions stored in a database. BTW, I'm on a shared server running PHP Version: 4.4.7 and MySQL Version: 5.0.30. I made the following changes; session.use_cookies: On session.use_only_cookies: On session.use_trans_sid: Off Now. I observed the following. Firstly, session id is recreated everytime I visit the page which has session_start(). Secondly, the session is only valid in the current page. Subsquent page calls (URLing to another page) cannot see the session variables set earlier. - For a minute I accepted that I can live with that but then - it's back to the drawing board. Finally, the main problem. No Cookies are being created. I tried: session_start(); setcookie("suidone","value00"); echo "ck1:" . $_COOKIE['suidone']; $lifetime = time() + 1440; setcookie("suidtwo", session_id(), $lifetime,"/","blessedwithoutlimits.com"); if (isset($suid)) echo "ck2:" . $_COOKIE['suidtwo']; None of these creates a cookie. (Checked using Firefox, Tools->Show Cookies) Attempts: I have googled on this for 48+ hours and tried several solutions to no avail. Tried .htacess too. session.cookie_path and the like. Please advise where I might be going wrong with the whole thing of saving session data in a database then use the "one" cookie (preserved session id) to ID the remote user during the session. I would also appreciate if someone can 'clickpoint' me to the right material/place to find help. Many thanks in advance.