Sessions doesnt work on 404 page

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#1

Hello, I got problem on my site with sessions. When I access page which doesn’t exists my error page is unable to load current session, but this only happens when I load my page as ErrorDocument. When I access page directly, then everything appear ok. I don’t think there can be anything wrong with my .htaccess, but rather posting its code:

   # HTID:xxxxxxx: DO NOT REMOVE OR MODIFY THIS LINE AND THE LINES BELOW
    php_value display_errors 1
    # DO NOT REMOVE OR MODIFY THIS LINE AND THE LINES ABOVE HTID:xxxxxxx:

    ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
#2

Hi @GrowtopiaNoobs!

You had to add output_buffering flag in .htaccess. I have added it for you.

Try it now.

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#3

This didn’t helped. Session still don’t work.

#4

Sessions do work. If your website does not behave as expected that’s most likely coding issues…

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#5

I don’t feel like it is coding issue. Navbar should give different options when user is logged in and when he is not. When you log on at page https://trainer-core.000webhostapp.com/login.php (with account test and password test), you can notice that navbar looks different, even it should look same: https://trainer-core.000webhostapp.com/some-page-which-doesnt-exists https://trainer-core.000webhostapp.com/404.php

#6

I have just checked it: after logging in and browsing the error file directly, the navbar displays properly: https://trainer-core.000webhostapp.com/404.php

.htaccess contains server-side directives, not PHP ones, therefore based on certain rules Apache can null sessions/headers which are coming from PHP.

Did you tried your code locally?

#7

No, I didn’t tried my code localy, I am using 000webhost for this. So, if I understand to you right this is excepted behavior and only way to solve this is just to redirect to error page when 404 happens?

#8

You can redirect to whatever page you want when any error code occurs, however if you are doing the redirect from .htaccess directly, sessions effect will be annulled.

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