Session data is lost

[crisp]

Hello.
After 3 days of frustration I've decided to ask about this on the forum. (I've posted this also on OSC official forum)
So here it is :
After upgrading the distribution on my server my test shop stop working. I'm running MS2 plus some improvments that i''ve made.
I'm learning now PHP so bare with me.
The problems is that I cannot login anymore and also I cannot add anything to the shopping cart. After I looked into the code I've realised that is a session problem. My session data was lost.
Ar first I thought it was because of the upgrade. I'm not sure because since the upgrade I did not make big changes to the site to break the session code. But I've tested an older shop on the same machine and on that is working. Same PHP ,same MYSQL.
So i looked a little bit further in the code ... It seems that after a redirect in login.php all the session data is lost...

tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT));

I've double check my configure.php and i've put some debug info the the sources. The cookie with the OSC session id is passed but still the session data is not available anymore after the redirect. ...

error_log('cookies  = ' . (string) implode(',',$HTTP_COOKIE_VARS) ,0);
....
[02-mar-2004 14:34:47] cookies  = please_accept_for_session,c1963cbed36eda7cf37c06fcfcb07a56

I don't know what to do anymore.
I think this is a common problem, I've checked the forums but none of the info there helped.
BTW, can anyone tell me how I can do some remote debugging with PHP 4.2.2 ?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks
Cristian

[peteyg]

tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT));
This code is after an if statement. If the user has content from b4 in their cart it will load the data if not it will send you to index.php. What is the error you get when you try to login??

[crisp]

No error.
I just goes to default page with me still not logged in. The cart is empty, etc.
If I try to add a product (as a guest), the shopping cart page come up empty.
Like I said, the session variables are not registered ...
tep_session_is_registered('customer_id') is 1 before tep_redirect() and 0 after, in index.php or shopping_cart.php


Cristian

[jonthewebb]

Like peteyg says, are you sure this is the tep_redirect that is being used? Try commenting it out and replacing with

echo (tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT));

Otherwise your configure might be set up wrong...but you say you've checked that. Have you changed the url of the site and not the cookie path in the config though?

just a few things I would check, you might already have tried them.....



jon

[crisp]

I know that THAT redirect is the problem because if I've comment it out, it works. It's not redirecting me (of course) to the index.php page but I can see my shoping cart etc ... so the session data is not distroyed.
I've changed only the distro on the server and the location of the OSC root dir, not the domain name.
But if the domain/cookie path would be invalid how come I get the cookie in $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS in index.php after redirect ?
I can post my configure.php here ....

 define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://thebarbu.xsoftware.ro');// eg, http://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://thebarbu.xsoftware.ro'); // eg,https://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
  define('ENABLE_SSL', false); // secure webserver for checkout procedure?
  define('HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'thebarbu.xsoftware.ro');
  define('HTTPS_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'thebarbu.xsoftware.ro');
  define('HTTP_COOKIE_PATH', '/catalog/');
  define('HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH', '/catalog/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTP_CATALOG', '/catalog/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/catalog/');
  define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');
  define('DIR_WS_ICONS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'icons/');
  define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');
  define('DIR_WS_BOXES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'boxes/');
  define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');
  define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');
  define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');
  define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');

  define('DIR_WS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', 'pub/');
  define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/var/local/www/sites/thebarbu/catalog/');
  define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'download/');
  define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'pub/');

// define our database connection
...
...
...
...
...
  define('USE_PCONNECT', 'false'); // use persistent connections?
  define('STORE_SESSIONS', 'mysql'); // leave empty '' for default handler or set to 'mysql'

I've tried with cookie path '/catalog' and 'catalog/' also...

Thanks for your quick replies,

Cristian

[peteyg]

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.oldcarclocks.com'); // eg, http://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
define('HTTPS_SERVER', ''); // eg, https://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
define('ENABLE_SSL', false); // secure webserver for checkout procedure?
define('HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'www.oldcarclocks.com');
define('HTTPS_COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');
define('HTTP_COOKIE_PATH', '/');
define('HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH', '');
define('DIR_WS_HTTP_CATALOG', '/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '');
define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');
define('DIR_WS_ICONS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'icons/');
define('DIR_WS_CONDI', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'condition/');
define('DIR_WS_REF', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'ref/');
define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');
define('DIR_WS_BOXES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'boxes/');
define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');
define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');
define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');
define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');

//Added for BTS1.0
define('DIR_WS_TEMPLATES', 'templates/');
define('DIR_WS_CONTENT', DIR_WS_TEMPLATES . 'content/');
define('DIR_WS_JAVASCRIPT', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'javascript/');
//End BTS1.0
define('DIR_WS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', 'pub/');
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/var/www/html/');
define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'download/');
define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'pub/');
This is my configure file...im comparing it to yours. I noticed you have SSL defined as false as do i but you still have your server defined in it. So try taking out the HTTPS definitions like i have see if this helps though im not sure if it will.

[crisp]

Nope. It's not working.

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[crisp]

One more thing that I've noticed and that explains it.
If I set the session handle to files (in /tmp dir) I get 0 length files there ... So no content. If I'm testing on the other shop that I've mentioned I have content in the session files in /tmp

It seems that the files are opened but it cannot write on them. Of course the permisions are ok . (both sops are running on the same server).

Cristian

[peteyg]

Do you want to use SSL?

[crisp]

Not at the moment, peteyg.
But I did what you suggested in your configure.php and still nothing.
An the other OSC installation that is running on the same site is using SSL and it's working.

Cristian