Re: [Phpgroupware-users] 0.9.16, php sessions, and the endless loop

[Chris Weiss]

well, I'll admit that I don't fully understand sessions:)

can you file a bug report with as much info as you can to reproduce the
problem?

Brad Bulger (address@hidden) wrote:
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>
> should add, may not be quite so straight-forward - seems that it was
> a combination of those flags being set, and having run a test script
> that did a session_start(), and THEN trying to log in, that made the
> 'could not be verified' loop stop. still, same general idea.
>
>
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Brad Bulger wrote:
>
> >
> > yep - it's just /tmp (i ran a script just now to check this, since it
> > is OS X and sometimes is strange for no reason...)
> >
> > ah hah! but php.ini was the right place to look anyway. there are
> > two flags in there, use_cookies and use_only_cookies - both were
> > set to 1 (true). setting them to 0 in an .htaccess file makes it
> > all work.
> >
> > it would be possible to check this with ini_get() and maybe do
> > something reasonable about it. i'd be glad to see if i can figure
> > that out - but would it be better to handle that in /setup/ somewhere,
> > or in login.php itself? might be, best thing to do would be to set
> > the default to usecookies=true if that flag is set, and to disable
> > the choice if use_only_cookies is set.
> >
> > thanks for your help!
> >
> > -b
> >
> > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Chris Weiss wrote:
> >
> > > make sure the paths in php.ini for sessions are writable by the web server
> > >
> > > Brad Bulger (address@hidden) wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > In the current release of 0.9.16, if I choose PHP sessions in setup,
> > > > it puts me into an eternal loop of "Your session could not be verified"
> > > > when I try to log in to the site. If I explicitly set
> > > >
> > > > $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['server']['usecookies'] = true;
> > > >
> > > > in login.php, this goes away.
> > > >
> > > > What in tarnation is going on here? I can't tell it to use cookies
> > > > for PHP sessions until I can log in. So I end up stuck not being
> > > > able to log in until I log in... Wacky.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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