I have a problem sharing the session between two subdomains, and I've read a lot of threads here and other places.
I have www.xx.com and sub.xx.com and I've set
session_name("PHPSESSXX");
session_set_cookie_params(0, '/', '.xx.com');
and the session.save_path is the same on both domains.
I get a cookie called PHPSESSXX on both domains, and it has the same value.
When I log on to www.xx.com I get a session with some details in it, and it stays that way until I go to sub.xx.com. Then the session on sub.xx.com is empty, and if I refresh www.xx.com, the session there is gone as well. So it does something, but it seems to be overwriting the session data each time I visit a different subdomain.
Any ideas anyone? - Can i debug this somehow?
Btw: I'm using ssl on both domains.
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PHP session ids are saved in Cookies. To make a cookie available in all the sub-domains you need to assign it to the root domain. Then all the sub-domains will get the session id from cookie and PHP can find the session using passed session id.
As it turns out, You just need to set the session.cookie_domain to the root domain in php.ini file
session.cookie_domain = ".example.com"
Also check manual for different approaches used to set an ini entry.
Your question is answered here
Sharing SESSION Variables Between Multiple Subdomains
My solution was to set a flag in .htaccess like this:
php_flag "suhosin.session.cryptdocroot" 0
And it now works perfectly ;o)
The problem was that Suhosin was installed on the system, and the ini variable
suhosin.session.cryptdocroot = On
encrypted the session files in such a way, that when a different subdomain tried to change the session, it deleted everything for security reasons.
It didn't work for me to set the variable to Off or [nothing] in the ini-file, though maybe I didn't find the right file.
I also tried setting it in PHP without any luck. Like this:
ini_set('suhosin.session.cryptdocroot', 0)
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