Question

I have developed a simple Cake application and after finishing coding of it, I uploaded it to my web server and now it has several problems (It works like a charm on localhost):

• setFlash messages doesn’t work (I’m using Sessions in database and there are records of some sessions in cake_sessions)
• After a successful login, it’ll redirect me to the login page again.
• Sometimes cache files just disappear! (My tmp folder is writeable)

Actually no actions is allowed before logging in but you should see a You are not authorized to access that location. flash message on top of login page but it just doesn’t appear however if you login with a bad username/password it’ll show a message(wth?)

Login and Logout methods of UsersController:

public function login() {
    if ($this->request->is('post')) {
        if ($this->Auth->login()) {
            $this->redirect($this->Auth->redirect());
        } else {
            $this->Session->setFlash(__('Invalid username or password, try again'));
        }
    }
}

public function logout() {
    $this->redirect($this->Auth->logout());
}

Last 100 queries executed (from logs):

SELECT `Session`.`id`, `Session`.`data`, `Session`.`expires` FROM `srv`.`cake_sessions` AS `Session` WHERE `id` = '7orjo8clp192qeie55k6pqro26' LIMIT 1

Answer 1

Sounds like sessions are broken on your webserver. Check your system clock – if it differs by more than a few minutes your sessions will expire very quickly, if not immediately