Posted by Hendri Kurniawan on 02/28/07 04:48

Nik Coughlin wrote:
> Steve wrote:
>> "Nik Coughlin" <nrkn.com@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:es2o3p$550$1@aioe.org...
>>> Sessions have unexpectedly stopped working on a client's webserver.
>>>
>>> PHP Version 4.4.1 running under IIS. When moving from page to page
>>> the session information is lost.
>>>
>>> It used to work fine, and the same code works on other machines.
>>> AFAIK no-one has been messing with the box, but it's possible. I've
>>> asked them to try and find out if anyone has changed anything.
>>>
> The second one has nothing that helps me determine the cause of my problem
> either.
>
> A minimal test case:
>
> sessionTest1.php:
> <?php
> session_start();
> $_SESSION[ 'test' ] = "Testing";
> echo "Test = " . $_SESSION[ 'test' ] . "<br>";
> echo '<a href="sessionTest2.php?' . htmlspecialchars(SID) . '">Test Page
> 2</a>';
> ?>
>
> sessionTest2.php:
> <?php
> session_start();
> echo "Test = " . $_SESSION[ 'test' ] . "<br>";
> echo '<a href="sessionTest1.php">Test Page 1</a>';
> ?>
>
> You can see what happens here:
>
> http://www.masterpiece.co.nz/sessionTest1.php
>
>

Just taking a stab in the dark here: Make sure that your session
directory (the directory that PHP store session information) exists.
If you don't know where the directory is see php.ini file

Also take a look at any error log. I don't know about IIS, but when I
use apache, I can specify to PHP to send error message to Apache's error
log.

Hendri

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