Session is not persisting on server

Hi, i'm having a weird bug or issue about persisting sessions, lets say i manually authenticate the user in HomeController@index using

Auth::attempt(['user' => 'username', 'password' => 'password']);
// or
Auth::login(User::find(1));

but when i navigate to 'HomeController@create' or 'HomeController@edit' the authenticated user is not there. also i tried also setting the controllers middleware to redirect users if not authenticated to 'HomeController@index'.

//HomeController
public function index()
{
 Auth::attempt([
  'username'=>'username',
  'password'=>'password',
 ]);
}

//OtherController
public function __construct()
{
 $this->middleware('auth');
}

in my local machine, it works fine, but when i upload it on the server, it's not working anymore.

i also checked the storage/framework/sessions and the file is there. both local and server.

also tried setting the config/sessions driver to file, database, cookies. but none of these works. i tried clearing the browser's cookie, setting the storage/framework/sessions folder permission to 777, and still no luck. i also tried setting the config/session lifetime to 120 expire_on_close to true, still no luck. i check my laravel version is 5.0.35 and php version is 5.4.28, i'm wondering if the php version has something to do with the sessions,

please help.

tealiedie

9 years ago

Level 3

up..

SaeedPrez

9 years ago

Level 50

What PHP version do you run on your local machine?

I'm not sure if that will solve your problem, but you would be wise to upgrade PHP to 7.x or at least 5.6.

Take a look at these..

tealiedie

9 years ago

Level 3

i run php 5.5.19 on my local machine, server php 5.4.28, apache version 5.4.28

the weird thing is, i also have another project on that server, but it is running just fine, configurations are the same with my faulty project on server, i dont know what couldve happen, i also tried using database, 'file', cookies. also check if there files / data storing, and it has!. files, data in sessions table. cookies, all was there.

SaeedPrez

9 years ago

Level 50

Another Laravel project, same Laravel version?

I've also noticed you're using username instead of email, can I assume you have changed your code to work with that?

I think the most common session problem is no web middleware or double web middleware, but that's usually Laravel 5.2.

Try some simple tests to see if the session is really working or not..

Route::group(['prefix' => 'test'], function() {

    Route::get('session', function() {
        Session::put('testing', 'Hello World');
        return redirect('test/session-result');
    });

    Route::get('session-result', function() {
        return Session::get('testing');
    });

});

Then visit http://yourdomain.com/test/session and see what happens.