[drupal-support] Again on the "remember me" option

[Mark Quinn]

> To solve this problem I had to directly edit the php.ini file in /etc/
> So I searched for the session.cookie_lifetime and set it to 2000000 instead
> of 0 (the previous value).

Your provider, or yourself, has dissalowed the use of htaccess files.
It is a feature that needs to be enabled in apache's own config.
See http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/htaccess.html

> Anyway, setting the php.ini file solved the problem of the cookie. I use
> Firefox 1.0 as browser and I can see that there's a cookie expiring in May,
> about three months from now and exactly following the value in the php.ini.

yes, this sounds about right

>
> Now the session is somewhat saved. I can shut down the browser, reopen it
> and I'm still logged in. But if I don't go back within an hour or so I have
> to relog *again*. So the cookie basically works for some time but then
> vanishes in the void. Absolutely ignoring the fact that it should last at
> least THREE MONTHS.

Have you tried this in any other browsers or operating systems? Be
sure it's not a preference setting in a browser to ditch cookies at
closedown. or a setting to not disk store cookies. Try it in a pretty
vanilla IE on a different computer.

I created an account on your server and can confirm that it
succesfully kept me logged in after closing down my browser and
restarting. (You may delete the account called 'cheeky' if you like)


On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 03:50:49 +0100, Abalieno <abalieno at cesspit.net> wrote:
> I'm still struggling with this problem without being able to solve it, so
> here I'll write more details and maybe someone will be able to help me
> figure out why the feature isn't working correctly and if it's a problem of
> my configuration or a bug in Drupal.
> 
> I use a relatively unmodified version of Drupal 4.5.2
> The only "quirk" is that the engine is in a /drupal/ subdirectory. So the
> real address is: http://www.cesspit.net/drupal/
> To redirect there I have an .htaccess directly into http://www.cesspit.net/
> which just contain a line:
> DirectoryIndex drupal/index.php
> 
> This redirects to the subdir whenever the basic address is accessed. and it
> seems to work.
> I cannot install drupal in the main directory because the
> http://www.cesspit.net/admin/ shortcut is used by the provider to access the
> admin pages of the website, so it prevents drupal to work in the case I
> install it there.
> The other technical details are that I use PHP 4.3.8 and Apache 2.0.50
> 
> The .htaccess file in have on the /drupal subdirectory is exactly the one in
> default package. The only difference is that I followed the instructions,
> replacing
> <IfModule mod_php4.c>
> With:
> <IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
> This considering that I run the site on Apache 2.
> 
> But this didn't produce any effect. The sessions weren't saved and every
> time I closed the browser I had to log in my site again.
> 
> To solve this problem I had to directly edit the php.ini file in /etc/
> So I searched for the session.cookie_lifetime and set it to 2000000 instead
> of 0 (the previous value).
> 
> >From my attempts I realized that my site simply ignores what's written in
> the drupal's .htaccess. I tried to set the value in php.ini to 8000000
> (which should correspond to four months) and the one in the .htaccess to
> 6000000 (which should be three months). And looking directly at the cookie
> stored in my browser I saw it always behave as the php.ini value, no matter
> what value I put in the .htaccess file.
> 
> Anyway, setting the php.ini file solved the problem of the cookie. I use
> Firefox 1.0 as browser and I can see that there's a cookie expiring in May,
> about three months from now and exactly following the value in the php.ini.
> 
> Now the session is somewhat saved. I can shut down the browser, reopen it
> and I'm still logged in. But if I don't go back within an hour or so I have
> to relog *again*. So the cookie basically works for some time but then
> vanishes in the void. Absolutely ignoring the fact that it should last at
> least THREE MONTHS.
> 
> So, please, is someone able to figure out what is happening?
> 
> -HRose / Abalieno
> 
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