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>

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.

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?

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?