UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Setting cookie for http://domain.com AND http://www.domain.com

Is there a setting I am missing to set a cookie to read from either variation of the same domain?

http://domain.com
http://www.domain.com

Just curious, may not even be possible, I have just never seen anything out here about it.

Doesn't just a single fowrward slash alone do that for a site wide setting?

should be / for site wide yes but I don't think that works across domains.. I think what ya need is a htaccess entry so that www.yourdomain.com = yourdomain.com

Yea, trying to figure out the .htaccess command to do that now.

But that still won't help the cookie get read. You need to set the cookie for the domain name ".domain.com" <-- Notice the dot at the start. That tells the browser to send this cookie to anything.domain.com.

Often this is default on the server - I know it is under Plesk to automatically go from domain.com to www.domain.com.

Threads should be now allow you to set the cookie to one domain (I don't know if 6.5 allows this????) - so therefore www.domain.com would work, as would photos.domain.com, links.domain.com and of course just domain.com

At the moment both here and ubbcentral - if you are logged in at www.ubbcentral.com or www.ubbdev.com you are logged OUT at ubbcentral.com and ubbdev.com

If your site can be accessed as both http://www.domain.com/ as well as http://domain.com/ and are having trouble with things such as cookies on the Netscape browser*, here is a little rewrite rule you can place in your httpd.conf or on a per directory basis using .htaccess.

Here is what happens. When you request a page such as http://domain.com/x.html, the rewrite engine checks to see if the HTTP_HOST does not match the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) which in this case is www.domain.com. If they do not match, the engine rewrites the URL with the SERVER_NAME value, so make sure that your SERVER_NAME in your httpd.conf is the FQDN.


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www.domain.com
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R]

*About the Netscape Cookie Problem: If you issue a cookie from www.domain.com using a string such as "domain=.domain.com", it cannot be read by domain.com, fred.domain.com, and so on. MSIE does not have this trouble. If you force all your URLs to start with www. and issue the cookie using domain=www.domain.com, this resolves the problem