Question

It appears that my CI_Sessions or even normal php sessions won’t stick on my localhost. I’m running MAMP.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Make sure your MAMP/tmp/php folder has the right permissions set to it — most likely it does not.

Another cause for strange session behavior is white space after you close your PHP tag IE:

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['test'] = 'this is a test';
?>

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