Session not work: maybe Apache server misconfiguration?

[ale870]

Hello,

I made some tests but seems that my server does not maintain info for the sessions.
I used the code taken elsewhere in this forum:

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<?lc
	put the globalnames into tOldGlobal 
	-- don't want to write anything till AFTER session starts or it can cause issues

	set the sessionSavePath to the defaultfolder -- saving session stuff to the same dir as the .lc

	put "<br>THE DEFAULT FOLDER:" && the sessionSavePath & "<br>"

	start session 

		-- start the session. If you don't do this BEFORE your if check, $_SESSION["counter"] will always be empty

		if $_SESSION["counter"] is empty then  

			put "Fred" into $_SESSION["username"]
			 -- just added a key to see it work

			put 1 into $_SESSION["counter"] 
			-- using a counter as you were implementing

			  put merge("Before start: [[tOldGlobal]] After start: [[the globalnames]]")& "<br>"
			 -- shows the global vars before and after

		else 
			-- if there is a session do the else

			put $_SESSION["username"] & "<br>" 
			-- should put the username defined on the first iteration

			put "Session detected: Session counter=" & $_SESSION["counter"] & "<br>" 
			-- same here, puts the current counter

			  add 1 to $_SESSION["counter"]
			  put "Incrementing Session counter:" & $_SESSION["counter"] 
			-- increments and displays the future counter

		end if

	stop session

	 -- this is critical.  The changes aren't written out to file if you don't explicitly "stop session" 
	-- so you end up with session files of 4k with no data.
	-- after stop session, file is written, and you're good to go for the next round. 
?>

Can you help me?

I use Apache 2.2 on Windows.
Livecode cgi works correctly, in fact I can run it. The only problem is SESSION management.

Thank you!

[sturgis]

What version of the server are you running? If you don't have the more recent version, previous versions didn't have session control yet. Might be something to check.

If thats not it, repost and maybe the problem can be found.

Hello,

I made some tests but seems that my server does not maintain info for the sessions.
I used the code taken elsewhere in this forum:

Code: Select all

<?lc
	put the globalnames into tOldGlobal 
	-- don't want to write anything till AFTER session starts or it can cause issues

	set the sessionSavePath to the defaultfolder -- saving session stuff to the same dir as the .lc

	put "<br>THE DEFAULT FOLDER:" && the sessionSavePath & "<br>"

	start session 

		-- start the session. If you don't do this BEFORE your if check, $_SESSION["counter"] will always be empty

		if $_SESSION["counter"] is empty then  

			put "Fred" into $_SESSION["username"]
			 -- just added a key to see it work

			put 1 into $_SESSION["counter"] 
			-- using a counter as you were implementing

			  put merge("Before start: [[tOldGlobal]] After start: [[the globalnames]]")& "<br>"
			 -- shows the global vars before and after

		else 
			-- if there is a session do the else

			put $_SESSION["username"] & "<br>" 
			-- should put the username defined on the first iteration

			put "Session detected: Session counter=" & $_SESSION["counter"] & "<br>" 
			-- same here, puts the current counter

			  add 1 to $_SESSION["counter"]
			  put "Incrementing Session counter:" & $_SESSION["counter"] 
			-- increments and displays the future counter

		end if

	stop session

	 -- this is critical.  The changes aren't written out to file if you don't explicitly "stop session" 
	-- so you end up with session files of 4k with no data.
	-- after stop session, file is written, and you're good to go for the next round. 
?>

Can you help me?

I use Apache 2.2 on Windows.
Livecode cgi works correctly, in fact I can run it. The only problem is SESSION management.

Thank you!

[ale870]

I red some info about apache and sessions.l
You are right: my version (2.0) does not support them.
I need version 2.2 in order to apply module sessions.

Thank you for your help!

[sturgis]

Actually I had meant the version of livecode server you were running, but if its an apache problem then glad you found it!