Odd website problem

[xoggoth]

Doing a new PHP shopping cart, 1st page accessed sets up a customer MySQL record based on session variable, which is then accessed by the shopping cart when they go to that.

All working fine using a temporary index page called indexx.php, but as soon as I change the name to index.php it seems to be getting a different session variable on going to the shopping cart. If I rename the file to ANYTHING at all but index it's ok!

Not quite sure what's going on at mo' but can't for the life of me why just a name change would make a difference. Is there some reason you can't use sessions on an index page?

cheers

[xoggoth]

Yep. With indexx.php I get a session ID, go to checkout or any shop page and I get the same session ID.

Rename indexx.php to index.php and I get a different session ID on checkout. All the pages start with exactly the same code:

<?php
session_start();
$custid = session_id();

[mudskipper]

Yep. With indexx.php I get a session ID, go to checkout or any shop page and I get the same session ID.

Rename indexx.php to index.php and I get a different session ID on checkout. All the pages start with exactly the same code:

<?php
session_start();
$custid = session_id();

Is index.php the default page for the site? If you enter www.mysite.com, does it appear in the querystring? Are you manually entering indexx.php?

How is your session Id stored? Cookies or querystring?

Is your checkout switching to https?

What settings are in your php.ini?

[xoggoth]

Cheers mudskipper. Not quite sure what a query string is or how you see it and do not have access to PHP.ini with my hosters according to cPanel. Not switching to https.

For the moment I have just changed the home page to home.php using DirectoryIndex and Redirect 301 in htaccess. That does solve the problem but its a crappy solution.

[Zippy]

querystring - you'd see something like www. mysite.com?somestuff in the address bar.

I assume you have a virtual server and I'd be batting this problem to the hosting company. A (very quiet) bell is ringing but can't put my finger on it.
At least you have a solution of sorts.

[xoggoth]

Thought I had but then found my addon domain index pages were being redirected. Putting htaccess in those did not seem to work. Can't find any decent solutions at all.