SESSION variables across subdomains. How to make them visible?

[Adrian Ciocalau]

Hi everybody!

I have a website and for some reasons, many subdomains, as part of the same website. Some kind of mainstore.com and phones.mainstore.com, laptops.mainstore.com, and so on.

The problem I am facing is I can't make SESSION variables (and COOKIES) visibile between them. If I login from the first page (mainstore.com) everything is ok, but if I then navigate to phones.mainstore.com, the website is showing me I am not logged in, of course, because SESSION variable used to check if a user is logged in or not is not visible on that subdomain.

I read a lot of articles about this problem, some of them are offering solutions but none worked for me.

Here are the facts:

ColdFusion 9 Enterprise

Windows Server 2008

IIS7

And this is my <CFAPPLICATION> statement:

<CFAPPLICATION NAME="appName" CLIENTMANAGEMENT="No" SETCLIENTCOOKIES="Yes" SETDOMAINCOOKIES="Yes" SESSIONMANAGEMENT="Yes" SESSIONTIMEOUT="#CreateTimeSpan(0, 0, 20, 0)#">

Do you have any idea how to make SESSION variables and COOKIES visible between all subdomains of the same domain?

Thank you!

[Owainnorth]

Not a problem!

My invoice is in the post

[Adrian Ciocalau]

It works like a charm No matter if you are on http://cazare-brasov.viaromania.eu or http://bilete-avion.viaromania.eu you are logged in

Topic closed!

[BKBK · Accepted solution]

Do it manually and tell us what happens. To do it manually, set setClientCookies to "no" and then use this code

<cfcookie name="CFID"
domain=".viaromania.eu"
value="#session.cfid#">

<cfcookie    name="CFTOKEN"
domain=".viaromania.eu"
value="#session.cftoken#">

<cfcookie name="JSESSIONID"
domain=".viaromania.eu"
value="#session.sessionid#">

[Adrian Ciocalau]

No matter if setClientCookies is set to YES or NO, your code is returing this error: "Element CFID is undefined in SESSION."

Here is my application settings.

<CFAPPLICATION NAME="appName" CLIENTMANAGEMENT="No" SETCLIENTCOOKIES="Yes" SETDOMAINCOOKIES="Yes" SESSIONMANAGEMENT="Yes" SESSIONTIMEOUT="#CreateTimeSpan(0, 0, 20, 0)#">

[BKBK]

MacLaeod wrote:

No matter if setClientCookies is set to YES or NO, your code is returing this error: "Element CFID is undefined in SESSION."

Here is my application settings.

<CFAPPLICATION NAME="appName" CLIENTMANAGEMENT="No" SETCLIENTCOOKIES="Yes" SETDOMAINCOOKIES="Yes" SESSIONMANAGEMENT="Yes" SESSIONTIMEOUT="#CreateTimeSpan(0, 0, 20, 0)#">

I have only just read that you are using J2EE session management. Then you should have ignored session.CFID and session.CFTOKEN, and only used

<cfcookie name="JSESSIONID"
domain=".viaromania.eu"
value="#session.sessionid#">

However, you still have to set setClientCookies to "No".