Hi,

On 10 February 2011 06:26, Christophe COEVOET <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 09/02/2011 17:57, Ryan Walker a écrit :
>>
>> I am searching for a solution to an authentication problem and I see that
>> Serg had the same problem (#2 below) way back in May of last year before I
>> was on this list. As far as I can tell, no solution was posted to list.
>>
>> In my development environment on Mac OS X, sfDoctrineGuardPlugin is
>> working properly. When I attempt to access a secure page, I get redirected
>> to login. When I enter valid credentials, I get redirected back to the
>> initially requested page.
>>
>> In my test environment at DreamHost, it is not working properly. When I
>> attempt to access a secure page, I get redirected to login. When I enter
>> valid credentials, I get redirected back to the initially requested page,
>> but symfony loses my authentication status and (re-)redirects me back to
>> login once again with the form emptied. (In contrast, if I enter invalid
>> credentials, then I receive an error message on the login page and the
>> username remains filled in.)
>>
>> In each environment, symfony does verify my credentials are valid and that
>> I have 'admin' privileges, but test forgets those credentials as soon as it
>> redirects me back to my requested page.
>>
>> Nothing interesting shows up in the apache error log.
>
> This seems to be an issue with the session on your server. If the session
> variable are not stored, the authentication status cannot be saved.
> You should ask the Dreamhost support to know why session variables does not
> work.

This is not a symfony related suggestion.

I found often Session issues were caused by the suhosin module, which
comes with many Ubuntu based hosts. Try to turn session encryption off
and see if it helps. I found for example that sometimes the Document
Root is part of the encryption and it may not always work as expected.

HTH


Kind Regards,

Jochen Daum

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