PHP cookies not working remotely

[kalm1234]

Hi all,

 

Recently, I upgraded my apache and PHP version at the same time.  When I did, it seemed like it was a smooth upgrade and nothing had gone wrong.  I tested my site locally, but a friend of mine tried it and he had a problem logging in.  The cookies were not working remotely, but were working locally.  My php version is 5.3.2.  My site was working perfectly before, but since I upgraded, the cookies scripts I made have not been working for remote users.  Any ideas?

[Riparian]

I certainly do not know much about this but have you spoken to your host ? could it be the location of your session cookies temp file that has got lost in the upgrade... Just a thought but I would certainly ask them

[kalm1234]

I host my own server.  I double checked the session section in my php.ini and cannot find a problem, though that's not saying much as I am new to this.

 

Here is my login page:

 

<?php

$user = $_POST['username'];
$pass = $_POST['password'];
if (($user == "") || ($pass == ""))
{
echo 'Please enter the form correctly.';
exit();
}
if (file_exists("../../users/".$user.".php"))
{
  $userfile = "../../users/".$user.".php";
  $fh = fopen($userfile, 'r');
  $contents = fread($fh, filesize($userfile));

  $lines = explode("\n",$contents);
  fclose($fh);

  if (crypt($pass, $lines[6]) == $lines[6])
  {
   $ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
   if ($ip == '127.0.0.1')
   {
    setcookie("loginhda5", $user, time()+3600, "/", "127.0.0.1");
   }
   else
   {
    setcookie("loginhda5", $user, time()+3600, "/", "65.5.164.229");
   }

  }

  else

  {
   echo "The username or password you entered is invalid. Please <a href='../index.php'>try again</a>";
  }

}
else
{
echo "The username or password you entered is invalid.  Please <a href='../index.php'>try again</a>";
}
?>

Sorry if its not spaced out enough.

 

I'm pretty sure there is nothing wrong in the code (nothing that would prevent it from working anyway).

[Riparian]

what about permissions ? especially for ../../users/".$user.".php";

Just a thought

Just strange that it was fine before the upgrade

 

p.s. your friend did not have cookies blocked ?

[kalm1234]

The script does not give me any errors when trying to open the file, so I didn't think it was a problem with the folder permissions.  My friend has cookies enabled because he had never had a problem with it before.  Also, now I am getting messages from others that they are having trouble too.

[kalm1234]

For the time being until I can find out what is wrong with cookies, I switched to sessions.  I checked my folder permissions and they allowed for read/write, so that's not the problem either  :-\