Posted by gcook on 05/10/05 20:36

(reposted, as my computer date was wrong and my post ended up in last
week :) ).

Hi,

I've got a mandrake 10.1 webserver. I'm having sporadic problems from
users (no discernable trend, other than I believe they all have cookies
disabled) not having their sessions maintained.

Specifically, the occassional user gets a blank session id as far as I
can tell. So they login, it accepts the login, then the very next page
it sees them as not logged in again.

This is happening across a variety of scripts and websites on our
server, from our own software to purchase products like vbulletin. I am
thus very suspicious that this is not a script specific issue, but
something wrong with my php installation.

Now, I recently upgraded a lot of stuff (php included I think) using my
automated mandrake rpm tools. I'm pretty certain that I broke something
in that process - what, I'm not sure. I suspect it's either in my php
config, or a bug/version problem in some module that's involved with the
setting of cookies/session id's.

Anyone have any guidance? here's the rough output from phpinfo:
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PHP Version 4.3.10
Build Date Apr 18 2005 11:14:06

additional .ini files parsed /etc/php.d/19_domxml.ini,
/etc/php.d/26_imap.ini, /etc/php.d/27_ldap.ini, /etc/php.d/34_mysql.ini,
/etc/php.d/39_pgsql.ini, /etc/php.d/41_readline.ini,
/etc/php.d/52_xml.ini, /etc/php.d/52_xmlrpc.ini

PHP API 20020918
PHP Extension 20020429
Zend Extension 20021010
Debug Build no
Thread Safety disabled
Registered PHP Streams php, http, ftp, https, ftps, compress.zlib
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I welcome any suggestions!

Thanks,
Glenn

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