Set PHP's session.name parameter differently on each.

http://www.php.net/ini_set

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

This is a characteristic of browser cookies and is not a MediaWiki flaw. The login is saved in a cookie based on the site (http://foo.bar) and not on a specific page of the site (/wikiA or /wikiB). You need to use virtual hosting in Apache and different domain names for the sites - aka http://foo.bar and http://foo2.bar. I host about 11 wikis on one box, all with a single domain. I have to re-login on each of those. I also host another 3 on a separate box using virtual hosting, and they all retain the logins.

- MHart - http://taxalmanac.org

----- Original Message ----- From: "Julian Rendell" wandering.womble@gmail.com To: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 1:52 PM Subject: [Mediawiki-l] persistent session problems for two wikis on oneserver (log into one, always logged out of other)

Hi there-

We have two media-wiki (1.3.9) based wikis installed on a single server. The problem we're facing is that when we log into one of the wikis, and then go to the other (e.g. two windows/tabs in firefox), then try to edit in the first, it *always* forces us to re-login.

This *really* sucks :-(. Everything else is working really, really well.

Some details: the server is running linux/apache2, both wikis have alias directives in the apache config to do 'index.php' url hiding. One wiki is limited access, controlled by the apache mod_auth_ldap via apache access restriction directives. (Note, we're not using Apache's own mod_auth_ldap, but an alternate one that supports nested groups.)

Both are on running from the same domain, just different directories/sub-URLs (e.g. http://foo.bar/wikiA & http://foo.bar/wikiB .)

I've done some googling/read the release notes, and can't find any pointers, other than some notes in earlier version release notes that imply this problem shouldn't be happening.

Any help greatly appreciated, I'm relatively new to setting up apache/php/media-wiki.

(PS- unless there's a known bug, I don't want to upgrade media-wiki just to see if that fixes it... unfortunately I don't have a lot of time to support these sites, and need to 'save' time for an expected upcoming hardware upgrade, which is when I hope to update the software.)

Thanks in advance-

Julian _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

You're right - looks like you can set $wgCookieDomain - change that to your /wikiA page should do it.

- MHart - http://taxalmanac.org

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamie Bliss" astronouth7303@gmail.com To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" mediawiki-l@wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 5:59 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] persistent session problems for two wikis ononeserver (log into one, always logged out of other)

I believe there is a setting to change the cookie prefix. Check DefaultSettings.php.

On 6/7/05, MHart wiki@matthart.com wrote:

This is a characteristic of browser cookies and is not a MediaWiki flaw. The login is saved in a cookie based on the site (http://foo.bar) and not on a specific page of the site (/wikiA or /wikiB). You need to use virtual hosting in Apache and different domain names for the sites - aka http://foo.bar and http://foo2.bar. I host about 11 wikis on one box, all with a single domain. I have to re-login on each of those. I also host another 3 on a separate box using virtual hosting, and they all retain the logins.

• MHart
• http://taxalmanac.org

----- Original Message ----- From: "Julian Rendell" wandering.womble@gmail.com To: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 1:52 PM Subject: [Mediawiki-l] persistent session problems for two wikis on oneserver (log into one, always logged out of other)

Hi there-

We have two media-wiki (1.3.9) based wikis installed on a single server. The problem we're facing is that when we log into one of the wikis, and then go to the other (e.g. two windows/tabs in firefox), then try to edit in the first, it *always* forces us to re-login.

This *really* sucks :-(. Everything else is working really, really well.

Some details: the server is running linux/apache2, both wikis have alias directives in the apache config to do 'index.php' url hiding. One wiki is limited access, controlled by the apache mod_auth_ldap via apache access restriction directives. (Note, we're not using Apache's own mod_auth_ldap, but an alternate one that supports nested groups.)

Both are on running from the same domain, just different directories/sub-URLs (e.g. http://foo.bar/wikiA & http://foo.bar/wikiB .)

I've done some googling/read the release notes, and can't find any pointers, other than some notes in earlier version release notes that imply this problem shouldn't be happening.

Any help greatly appreciated, I'm relatively new to setting up apache/php/media-wiki.

(PS- unless there's a known bug, I don't want to upgrade media-wiki just to see if that fixes it... unfortunately I don't have a lot of time to support these sites, and need to 'save' time for an expected upcoming hardware upgrade, which is when I hope to update the software.)

Thanks in advance-

Julian _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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