PHP session variables lost after redirect

Question

Session variables are lost after using the following code to redirect:

    header('Location: ./protected_page.php');
    exit; //doesn't seem to do anything

On protected page I make sure to use session_start() before referencing any session variables.

Please help!

Possible duplicate of [PHP session lost after redirect](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17242346/php-session-lost-after-redirect) — Alexander O'Mara, Feb 06 '16 at 05:00
Post your complete code, from and to redirection pages, both. — Gaurav Rai, Feb 06 '16 at 05:36
After a bit of debugging, the variables are reset immediately after using session_name($session_name). any ideas? There is a lot of code mixed with HTML, can I post all of that here? — Joel de Léséleuc, Feb 06 '16 at 14:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 06 '16 at 17:16

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You redirect to the same domain.If you are redirecting from www.thedomain.com to thedomain.com can possibly end you session
Ensure register_globals is off, you can check this on the php.ini file and also using phpinfo().
The session variables aren't overwritten.
switching between http and https can also end your session.

answered Feb 06 '16 at 17:16

Lucky

After a bit of debugging, the variables are reset immediately after using session_name($session_name). Not sure why. Once that line is commented everything seems to work fine. – Joel de Léséleuc Feb 06 '16 at 17:40

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