Could it be IE settings related to your test machine(s)? Have you tried having someone else log in that has an XP machine that they know is capable of holding a session with a CF web server?
Kier Simmons Analyst/Programmer Phone: 713-791-6619 Toll Free: 1-888-482-5663 Fax: 713-791-6681 www.giveblood.org -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Gillespie Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:58 AM To: Houston ColdFusion Users' Group Subject: [houcfug] Re: Sessions not sticking Browser does not make much difference. Have tried IE6, IE7 and FF 2. FF and IE6 on Win2k stick the sessions, but not on XP. On Jun 5, 9:37 am, Shane Heasley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What browser are you using on each machine? IE 7 has issue with > maintaining sessions if there are odd characters in the site name. > Like a hyphen. There might be others but that comes to mind. For > examplehttp://test-box/index.cfm > > However, I have only seen that happen at random - not with every page > refresh. > > I assume the cookie data is changing each time? > > On Jun 4, 7:43 pm, Mike Gillespie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Need some help here, everything I/we have tried is not working. > > > We have a CFMX 6.1 on a win2k3 server with 2 instances on it. The > > cfusion instance assigns a new cfid,cftoken,jsessionid on every page > > refresh. The cfusion2 instance is working like it is supposed to. > > > There are only 2 websites on the box, each with it's own IP and DNS > > entry. Both instances have had the same patches and hot fixes > > applied. > > > The second instance was created using these instructions, which is how > > all servers with multiple instances are configured here, and this is > > the only one giving us trouble. > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/multi_instances.html > > > BUT, the really strange thing is that if you access a page and refresh > > from a windows 2000 client, the session sticks; even if you delete > > cookies. But hit the same page on an XP Pro machine and the session > > does not stick. I have never seen anything like it, and have been > > googling and cannot find anything on it. > > > So, I am hoping someone may have seen something like this and may have > > some suggestions. > > > The only strange thing I see is in the cold fusion administrator, > > system settings page. The Java path sections in each administrator > > are pointing to the servers/cfusion folder. Based on the instructions > > linked above, this does not suprise me since we are basically copying > > cfusion folder into cfusion2 folder to create the second instance, but > > checking other servers installed the same way shows the same thing, > > but there are not issues. > > > The client store on both instances are using seperate Oracle schemas. > > What is also strange is that on the server that is sticking the > > seesions, the client tables in oracle are blank, but on the server > > that is not sticking the database has entries. Both instances were > > using the registry for the first few weeks they were online (these are > > fresh installs to upgrade the hardware for dev/test environments. > > > Any ideas? I/we are stumped.. > > > M- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" discussion list. To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
