shopping cart is cleared after I log in

[jloyzaga]

I make selections then go to cart and am asked to log in - I log in and my cart has been emptied - I am using 1.55 - why does this happen?

[michael_s]

Your session is not carrying over to SSL most likely. Fix your sessions settings in the admin.

[jloyzaga]

what should they be? I am running it on my local linux box which doesn't have ssl I assume, what should me settings be?

I am also experiencing problems with the shopping cart. The cart shows differing contents on the non-secure and the secure server, and I lose the cart contents when logging in (jumping to secure server). Is this most likely something that can be fixed in the admin and/or configure.php file? Or could it be a setting on my server?

My current admin settings:
Session Directory: /tmp
Force Cookie Use: True
Check SSL Session ID: False
Check User Agent: False
Check IP Address: False
Prevent Spider Sessions: True
Recreate Session: True

Ok, I set the "Force Cookie Use" to False and that seems to have fixed it.

Can anyone explain (briefly) why this fixes the problem?

Thanks.

[jpf]

Session have to match on BOTH the client and the server. If your SSL on the server is on a physical server then the session "file" does not exist as it was created/maitained on the non-ssl server. Same for a LOCAL session ID when used in URL - it is kept with the URL - if your URL changes when you change to SSL - you could losse the SID. Storing Session in MYSQL on the server side if you have a "shaired" SSL is general required. Cookies for clients computer is better looking and will go no mater what URL you end up. NOTE the ONLY thing the cookies store is the Name (of site?), SID number, and the main site URL and not much else. No other site can really use this information anyway.