Sessions not working – Tried everything!

  • Resolved animalmutch

    (@animalmutch)


    14 years, 1 month ago

    I can’t get sessions to work. So far I have tried:

    1. Starting the session in wp-config.php
    2. Starting the session in functions.php
    3. Starting the session from within pages in my theme
    4. Starting the session from the main index page
    5. Adding _SESSION to the list of variables not to be unset by the wp_unregister_GLOBALS() function
    6. Adding specific session variable names to the list of variables not to be unset by the wp_unregister_GLOBALS() function
    7. Turning off register_globals in php.ini

    Sessions do work on some pages when I start the session in wp-config.php, functions.php and the main index page, but not in all pages, so I guess that the variables aren’t being unset, but that it’s a problem with the call to start the session. It seems that sessions work in my post pages, but not in pages such as archive etc. which leads me to suspect a problem with my template, but as I don’t know at what stage files such as wp-config are called, I can’t see where the problem is.

    Plesae help. This is driving me insane.

    Thanks

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  • Thread Starter animalmutch

    (@animalmutch)

    PS – The weird thing is that this works perfectly on my local server. It’s only on the live version that sessions suddenly stop working, so it seems that there could be a server configuration issue, perhaps?

    Thread Starter animalmutch

    (@animalmutch)

    I am now getting a session, but when I move between wordpress pages and pages in my static site, the session does not persist, and a new session is set up. When I go back to wordpress pages the previous session is still active on these pages! Any ideas?

    Thread Starter animalmutch

    (@animalmutch)

    Well, just in case it’s useful to anybody I’ll let you know how I fixed it in the end:

    The whole problem was down to the canonical domain set in the wordpress settings. I set a canonical domain via .htaccess and set the same canonical domain in wordpress et voila!

    Now I can happily use sessions just by starting the session in the normal way at the top of my theme template pages.

    This was also causing a ‘same-domain policy’ issue when trying to use ajax, but the canonical domain fixed this too.

    Can’t believe it’s taken me this long to work this out! I’m officially retarded.

    chomiczek

    (@chomiczek)

    Hi, can U send your htaccess file on my @? [email protected].
    I have this same problem with session.

    Thread Starter animalmutch

    (@animalmutch)

    Hi,

    Put this in your .htaccess to rewrite all urls to the www. version:

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   Options +FollowSymLinks
   Options +Indexes
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.com$
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

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