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    copied!<p>Since our web server was rebooted, PHP sessions are no longer working. Several people gave me helpful ideas, but none of them worked. I made a VERY simplified example that I'm pretty sure should work, but it does not work. If someone can explain why I will be very grateful. I've spent a whole day on this so far.</p> <p>My understanding is that $_SESSION is supposed to be "super global" meaning it's available anywhere.</p> <p>For clarity, I made two stripped down, rewritten pages where the code STILL doesn't work, i.e. print "Hello World".</p> <p>If someone could tell me what is wrong with THIS I would greatly appreciate it!</p> <p>----------- WEB PAGE ONE.PHP -----------------</p> <pre><code>&lt;?PHP session_start(); ?&gt; &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;Page One&lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt; &lt;?PHP $_SESSION['testvalue'] = "Hello World"; ?&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="pagetwo.php"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to see page two&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>----------- WEB PAGE TWO.PHP -----------------</p> <pre><code>&lt;?PHP session_start(); ?&gt; &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;Page Two&lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt; &lt;?PHP echo $_SESSION['testvalue']; ?&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>I run web page one and click the link to go to page two, and instead of a page showing "Hello World" I get</p> <p>Notice: Undefined index: testvalue in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\two.php</p> <p>I checked C:\PROGRAMDATA\PHP\SESSIONS and there is a file in there called</p> <p><strong>sess_905m06314ibdubru8ko0aqj4d1</strong></p> <p>Which contains the following</p> <p><strong>testvalue|s:11:"hello world";</strong></p> <p>This file was created when I ran <strong>one.php</strong>, indicating that the app has permission to write the session information</p> <p>Sorry if I seem dense but I'm just not understanding why this isn't working and have spent the better part of a day trying to figure it out.</p> <p>Thank you.</p>
 

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