Wow , I guess it wasn't really easy to figure that one out ;-) Good luck with it!
On Jan 25, 6:52 pm, volve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have found the cause of the problem. I appended a trac bug about > it:https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/830#comment:7 > > Basically high & medium security modes trigger PHP's > session.referer_check and tell it to look for $this->host in every > request's HTTP_REFERER. > > This logic immediately breaks down if the server serving the CakePHP > application has a proxy or cacheing server in front of it. > > In my case, new sessions were created upon every request because $this->host > was always "localhost" (the proxy server) where-as HTTP_REFERER > > was always "http://testdomain.com/users/login"; > > <sigh> > > So, I guess I'll be using low security from now on eh? :-/ > > Thanks for your help Dieter, and thanks for dAuth! > > -volve > > On Jan 24, 9:58 pm, volve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I also just compared dev to production: > > > dev: > > php 5.2.5, php-default session settings > > apache 2.2.6 > > > production > > php 5.2.5, php-default session settings > > apache 2.2.8 > > > When I upgraded production I actually switched to default httpd.conf > > settings in case any of the previous Apache1.3 settings were part of > > the problem. > > > As I said earlier, I'm not sure what to check next... > > > On Jan 24, 9:30 pm,volve<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Changing cake_session storage back to 'cake' (app/tmp/sessions/*) made > > > no difference. I can't find anything in trac.cakephp.org, and I > > > managed to misspell your name - sorry! > > > > I don't know what to do now... :( > > > > -volve > > > > On Jan 24, 9:18 pm,volve<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Ok... well... all was going well with Apache2 and PHP5 on the new dev > > > > environment, so I upgraded the production server... and the same > > > > problem is still occurring! I am so confused! I didn't do anything > > > > custom with the Apache2 or PHP5 configs on production; I used the > > > > recommended settings. :( > > > > > The grep -i showed some Session->valid and Session->read calls but the > > > > only Session->write or Session->delete calls were in d_auth.php. > > > > > What's more is that I'm using this Users/login action as the default / > > > > route for this project so this issue is occurring without the user > > > > having to navigate to any other pages/actions at all... :-/ > > > > > I'm off to search trac.cakephp.org now but this is crazy. The only > > > > difference between dev and prod now is dev has mysql5 and prod is > > > > still mysql4 (I am using cake_sessions in the database - I'll try > > > > switching back to files, see if it helps). > > > > > Thanks again Diether, > > > > -volve > > > > > On Jan 20, 5:34 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Well, something is removing items from ( or maybe totally wiping ) > > > > > your session, and i don't think it's dAuth ;-) > > > > > did grep -i session on your project yield anything? > > > > > But at least you have an environment where it works. try comparing > > > > > php.ini's, apache.conf's , looking up bugs for cake and php ( session > > > > > bugs will probably be also in this group), downgrading the php of the > > > > > new environment etc ... > > > > > > good luck! > > > > > Dieter > > > > > > On Jan 19, 5:33 pm,volve<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Thank you very much for getting back to me Dieter! > > > > > > > The salt is definitely "in there" before attemptLogin is called as I > > > > > > can stick a print_r in Users/login action and I see the salt at the > > > > > > top of the page when I load the login form. (But the print_r inside > > > > > > attemptLogin shows it as missing when submitting the login form.) > > > > > > > I spent some time last night setting-up a second development > > > > > > environment with PHP5 and... the problem hasn't reappeared... I know > > > > > > this doesn't really make sense, but I wanted to share anyway. Maybe > > > > > > there's some quirky CakePHP Session handling bug that isn't present > > > > > > in > > > > > > PHP5 ? All I did was copy over my previous app directory into this > > > > > > new > > > > > > environment and changed database logins. > > > > > > > I'm still baffled, but at least it's progress (I think). :) > > > > > > > Thanks again, > > > > > > -volve > > > > > > > On Jan 19, 6:38 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I basically did a > > > > > > > > fresh install of the v0.3 files from bakery.cakephp.org and > > > > > > > > wanted to > > > > > > > > get them all working as-is before customizing (to make sure > > > > > > > > there was > > > > > > > > nothing in my project interfering, I grep'd the entire source > > > > > > > > tree for > > > > > > > > references to 'salt' and only found the new dAuth ones). > > > > > > > > Well, this is weird indeed. I also used the powers of grep on the > > > > > > > dauth sources and found out that at only 1 place the salt is > > > > > > > written > > > > > > > into the session, which is in the function newSalt() of the > > > > > > > component. > > > > > > > By grepping on Session i could not find a place where the salt > > > > > > > might > > > > > > > be removed or the session cleared or anything like that. I > > > > > > > suggest > > > > > > > you also grep on Session in your entire project to find out if > > > > > > > something else might be interfering. ( use grep -i to be sure you > > > > > > > dont miss anything) > > > > > > > > Also make sure that the salt is put in the session before trying > > > > > > > to > > > > > > > read it out ( eg you're not going directly to the attemptLogin > > > > > > > logic > > > > > > > before opening the login page. and make sure you have a salt there > > > > > > > first) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
