URGENT: cookies don't work with nginx (proxying to apache!)

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Hi. nginx is proxying to apache. Everything works.

Except cookies. My php pages seem just not to be able to set cookies!

Is there any specific directive that I should watch out for?

Could proxy_cache stuff be interfering with it maybe?

My nginx.conf file is here:

My proxy.inc file is here:

Silly question: I am passing the header “Set Cookie”. Is there a header
for “Get Cookie”?

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pk899 Wrote:

maybe?

My nginx.conf file is here:
user nobody; worker_processes 4; worker_rlimit_nofile 40960; pid /var/run/nginx.pid; - 18331

My proxy.inc file is here:
proxy.inc file - a499c

Silly question: I am passing the header “Set
Cookie”. Is there a header for “Get Cookie”?

I ran some tests, and it seems one of the issues is that if cookies are
being set in a page, then the "header(location: xyz)’ command does not
work.

In apache, we got over this by setting output_buffering = on.

What’s the equivalent on nginx?

Thx

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On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 13:04 -0400, pk899 wrote:

I ran some tests, and it seems one of the issues is that if cookies are
being set in a page, then the "header(location: xyz)’ command does not
work.

In apache, we got over this by setting output_buffering = on.

What’s the equivalent on nginx?

That’s a PHP setting:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/outcontrol.configuration.php

Cliff

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Cliff, thanks for this, but wouldn’t that redirect the page before
setting the cookie?

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On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 13:04 -0400, pk899 wrote:

I ran some tests, and it seems one of the issues is that if cookies are
being set in a page, then the "header(location: xyz)’ command does not
work.

Try setting the location header before setting the cookie:

header(‘Location: …’);
setcookie(‘mycookie’, …);

Cliff

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On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 14:19 -0400, pk899 wrote:

Cliff, thanks for this, but wouldn’t that redirect the page before
setting the cookie?

No, it just sets a header. I don’t believe header order should matter
in any case, so I expect this is some PHP issue with outputting headers.

Cliff