[Wolves] Any PHP/MySQL experts who can help me?

[David Goodwin]

> It finally came down to (and i'm not sure I can describe this well 
> enough) - the  address that the session data was being held at -
> one part of php was happy to dump it into /var/www/session/ (not real 
> location) and then couldn't find it on log out.
> 
> in my case the server thought its address was server.domain.com and put 
> the session in a relative path to that.
> But when it was ferked (because I played with server name) it went 
> haywire and put the data in server.domain.com but tried to look for it
> in www.domain.com for example.
> 

Yes, I've had similar problems in the past, and they can be difficult to
spot/discover.... session wise it's all down to the fact that the server
name is used in the cookie - so if the server name changes, the cookie
is no longer applicable, so you end up being logged out etc

David.
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David Goodwin 

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