Cookies and Subdomains

[Fredev]

Hi, got subdomain to directory rewriting enabled with this code

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?domain.nl$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}  ^(www\.)?([^\.]+)\.domain.nl$ [NC]
RewriteCond %2---%{REQUEST_URI} !^(.+)---/\1(/.*)?$
RewriteRule .* /%2%{REQUEST_URI} [QSA,L]


This all works fine, but...... now i have a cookie problem

when logging in at sub.domain.nl, the loginscript a domain.nl/sub/index.php will show up.

In this script, there will be checked for existing cookies 'name'and 'md5pass' . These cookies do exist, for the domain sub.domain.nl.

But although the browsers address bar says were at sub.domain.nl, actually the script is at domain.nl/sub/index.php.

For safety reasons, a browser can only read cookies from its own (sub)domain i guess.

Any Ideas?

[richardk]

The browser doesn't know it's accessing domain.nl/sub/index.php. Are you sure the cookies are being set corretly to begin with?

[Fredev]

cookies are stored in the sub.domain.nl context

but when i try to read them from sub.domain.nl (which actually is domain.nl/sub/index.php) they do no seem to exist.

When I add the R flag to RewriteRule .* /%2%{REQUEST_URI} [QSA,L] I'm able to read the cookies as expected

The address bar then looks like

sub.domain.nl/sub, so that's no what i want

[richardk]

Cookies work fine for me. Try simplifying your code (only set the cookie and read the cookie) and testing. If you can't get the simplified version to work post it.

[Fredev]

The login form action='' contained
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']

While the addressbar contains sub.domain.nl/login.php, $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] isn't /login.php, but /sub/login.php

So, after submitting the form, the address bar contains 'sub.domain.nl/sub/login.php'

Somehow php is looking for /sub cookies instead of / cookies.

Changed action=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']" into action="login.php", which solved the problem