Session cookie isn't generated(saved?) and users can't login

By ETENTION on 7 Oct 2015 at 13:32 UTC

I have installed a dev version of my Drupal site into "/home/user/public_html/dev/drupal/" -> http://dev.drupal.tld

Live version of this site is installed into "/home/user/public_html/" -> http://drupal.tld

Live version is working fine but dev version (copy of live) isn't and problem is that I can't login to that site (drupal notice: access denied).
The problem seems to be in cookie that appears to be missing and I haven't figured out why and how.

From database I've debugged that session table is being populated with new sessions.
However, wihtout cookie it can't recognize visitor. Why isn't that cookie being saved and/or generated?

In settings.php I've configured base url, cookie domain and db (of course) per site.

This has happened with different php versions and at least from D7.29 onwards.

EDIT:I downloaded the BLOB from sessions table and this is what it holds: Notice: A session had already been started - ignoring session_start() funktiossa drupal_session_start() (rivi 287 file /home/user/public_html/includes/session.inc).";}}

Comments

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bander2 commented 7 October 2015 at 19:44

Are the dev and live versions sharing a database?

- Brendan

Nope

ETENTION commented 8 October 2015 at 17:56

In settings.php I've configured base url, cookie domain and db (of course) per site.

I've now forgot my dev site but seems like live is having same issues.

I just cleared cache via phpmyadmin and I got logged in.

But in the end this seems very unstable and not ready for production at all.
These problems didn't occur on localhost and seems like it is due to moving into shared host.