Single login through different SiteAccess (using sub-domains)

Sunday 09 May 2010 8:14:40 am

Hi,

I am using 3 SiteAccess for a multilingual site (ez 4.3) - with a "Host" access:

• eng.mysite.com
• fr.mysite.com
• admin.mysite.com

I would like to be able to log on "eng.mysite.com" and go to "fr.mysite.com" without having to log again.

I have set in site.ini :

[Session]
SessionNameHandler=default
SessionNamePerSiteAccess=disabled

But it does not work, the cookies set by the application still have a cookie_domain set to "eng.mysite.com" - and I have to log on each siteaccess.

Any idea, if it is possible to do and if so how ?

Thanks,
Hakim

In my php.ini, I have default settings such as:

• session.cookie_path = /
• session.cookie_domain =

Thursday 09 September 2010 1:46:57 am

Hi Hakim,

Don't know if you've found something to make it work on your side ... Theses days I was working on a similar thing. Here is the workaround I've found :

Edit your site.ini like that :

[Session]
SessionNameHandler=custom
SessionNamePerSiteAccess=disabled

Set a common cookie_domain for all your sub domains! To do that you can edit your apache virtual_host and add that line into it :

php_value session.cookie_domain ".mysite.com"

Or you can redefine that php option directly in Exponential by editing the config.php file (in the root of your install) by adding that :

$hostSlices = explode('.', $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']);
$hostSlices = array_slice($hostSlices, -2, 2);
$hostName = join('.', $hostSlices);
ini_set('session.cookie_domain', '.'.$hostName);

Hope it will be useful for several of us ;)