Hello. I'm the new webmaster for stfm.org. Our website uses
ColdFusion
5.0 as its web programming language. I'm originally a
Java Programmer
(JavaServerPages), so I've had to learn CFML quickly
(thanks to Ben
Forte's books).
Our web site is hosted on a
shared server (crystaltech.com).
We are experiencing unexpected
loss of some or all session variables
for about 20% of our users.
The session variables are lost well before
the 20 minute timeout
limit.
We use session variables to maintain user input across
approximately
3-4 data entry pages (page numbers vary based upon specific
category).
Our session variables are set and read inside of cflock tags
per
ColdFusion best practices.
The problem appears to worsen
when we have more users on our site, but
the number of users is not that
significant (less than 20-30 per hour).
This is a shared server, but I
don't know the overall load on the
server.
I've reseached
your listserver but did not find any material on
this
subject.
From my research on Macromedia's forum, the loss of session
variables appears to be a problem with ColdFusion 5. We are
considering changing our host plan to ColdFusion MX, though some of our
applications will need recoding since they use attributes no longer
supported in ColdFusion MX.
I'd certainly appreciate any advice from more experienced ColdFusion
developers who may have encountered and solved this problem.
Thank You,
Bruce