[consulting] Looking for consultant

[Rob Pierson]

As it turned out, emptying the access table worked on my test machine but
did not work for several others. Khalid's solution appears to have fixed
things for everyone.

I posted his technique at http://drupal.org/node/132762

Thank you everyone!

On 3/31/07, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/31/07, Rob Pierson < piersonr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I help with the website for young professionals working in foreign
> > policy (www.ypfp.org). It's a non-partisan site for young and mostly
> > dc-based think tank folks, congressional staff, etc to discuss foreign
> > policy.
> >
> > We've been running the site for about a year, and recently our web host
> > (opensourcehost.com) installed a module (suhosin) for php that they say
> > has corrupted the cookies of our users. I've tried moving the site to
> > another hosting company, reinstalled the database/cms, and unsuccessfully
> > searched for a solution. They say the only solution is to tell all of our
> > users to empty their cookies, which is not exactly what I would call a
> > "solution".
>
>
> Rob
>
> There is a work around for this issue:
>
> If you have access to your php.ini, you can change the cookie name from
> the
> default  PHPSESSID to something else.
>
>    Before: session.name = PHPSESSID
>
>   After: session.name = DRUPALSESSID
>
> This will cause all your users to be issued new cookies, that should be
> working,
> and the old cookie will be ignored.
>
> If you do not have access to php.ini, you can do this in .htaccess
>   php_value session.name 'DRUPALSESSID'
>
> Or in settings.php:
>   ini_set('session.name',  'DRUPALSESSID');
>
> This depends on whether your host allows the setting of this variable or
> not, but
> it is sure worth a try.
>
> We've decided to look for someone to assist in resolving this issue. We're
> > also going to be looking for someone to help with theming and module
> > development for the site (once we've been able to acquire some grants).
> >
> > The organization doesn't have so much in the way of funding right now,
> > but we're looking for someone that is interested in working with us as our
> > 600 member organization continues its rapid growth.
> >
> > Thanks for reading!
> > Rob
> >
>
>
>
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