By calebgilbert on

If anyone could answer this I'd really appreciate it. I've been trying to track the issue for months and still not been able to figure out what is keeping a user from being able to log in to my site from "http://www.domainexample.com".

Right now people can only login and remain logged in by entering "http://domainexample.com". If they put the "www" in there they're not seen as logged in. It's a 'small' problem, but a really annoying one, too...

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frjo’s picture

frjo commented

One way to fix it is to use mod_rewrite so when people go to www.domainexample.com they are redirected to domainexample.com.

Just after the line "RewriteEngine on" in your .htaccess file you add this:

# Remove www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domainexample\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domainexample.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]
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crunchywelch commented

You can change it in the settings.php file for your site, there is a section with a bunch of ini_set( commands. Add one that says:

ini_set('session.cookie_domain', '.domainexample.com');

And then all subdomains will use the same session cookie, and solve the problem of a different session being used for each subdomain, which is what you are experiencing.

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flufftronix commented

yes! amazing. i was having this problem too, and had no idea how to fix it. thanks!

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neelan commented

It works. i was frustrated to solve this issue. but your help made me happy. thanks sir.

calebgilbert’s picture

calebgilbert commented

...frjo and crunchywelch - this is really great that I've got a solution to this. You guys rock. :-)

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