Users Login, But Says Expired

[randyb]

I am working with ZenCart, and have a store setup. Everything works great, until the user attempts to place the order, at which point it asks for the user to login. After logging in, the system simply goes back to the main page and says, "Welcome Guest! Would you like to log yourself in?" If you have something in your cart and login, they get "Whoops - your session has expired."

Any ideas?

Thanks!

R~

[Ajeh]

Have you an URL where we can see this?

Also could you post your Session Settings?

[randyb]

Here you go:

http://www.fire-house.net/firesamples/

Thanks!

R~

[randyb]

Settings are:
Session Directory: /home/sites/home/web/firesamples/cache
Cookie Domain: True
Force Cookie Use: False
Check SSL Session ID: False
Check User Agent; False
Check IP Address: False
Prevent Spider Session: True
Recreate Session: True
IP to Host Conversion: True

[Ajeh]

Yeps ... it's broke ...

The session id on your site is making short session ids ... I have seen this before but off hand I cannot put a finger on the cause ...

Could you post your /includes/configure.php from your server without your username and password?

[randyb]

Thanks, here you go:

<?php
/**
*
* @package Configuration Settings
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2006 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
*/


// Define the webserver and path parameters
// HTTP_SERVER is your Main webserver: eg, http://www.yourdomain.com
// HTTPS_SERVER is your Secure webserver: eg, https://www.yourdomain.com
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.fire-house.net');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.fire-house.net');

// Use secure webserver for checkout procedure?
define('ENABLE_SSL', 'false');

// NOTE: be sure to leave the trailing '/' at the end of these lines if you make changes!
// * DIR_WS_* = Webserver directories (virtual/URL)
// these paths are relative to top of your webspace ... (ie: under the public_html or httpdocs folder)
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/firesamples/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/firesamples/');

define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');
define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');
define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');
define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');
define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');
define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');
define('DIR_WS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'pub/');
define('DIR_WS_TEMPLATES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'templates/');

define('DIR_WS_PHPBB', '/');

// * DIR_FS_* = Filesystem directories (local/physical)
//the following path is a COMPLETE path to your Zen Cart files. eg: /var/www/vhost/accountname/public_html/store/
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/sites/home/web/firesamples/');

define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'download/');
define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'pub/');
define('DIR_WS_UPLOADS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'uploads/');
define('DIR_FS_UPLOADS', DIR_FS_CATALOG . DIR_WS_UPLOADS);
define('DIR_FS_EMAIL_TEMPLATES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'email/');

// define our database connection
define('DB_TYPE', 'mysql');
define('DB_PREFIX', 'demo_');
define('DB_SERVER', 'localhost'); // eg, localhost - should not be empty
define('DB_SERVER_USERNAME', 'XXXXXXXXXX');
define('DB_SERVER_PASSWORD', 'XXXXXXXXXX');
define('DB_DATABASE', 'firesamples');
define('USE_PCONNECT', 'false'); // use persistent connections?
define('STORE_SESSIONS', 'db'); // leave empty '' for default handler or set to 'db'

// The next 2 "defines" are for SQL cache support.
// For SQL_CACHE_METHOD, you can select from: none, database, or file
// If you choose "file", then you need to set the DIR_FS_SQL_CACHE to a directory where your apache
// or webserver user has write privileges (chmod 666 or 777). We recommend using the "cache" folder inside the Zen Cart folder
// ie: /path/to/your/webspace/public_html/zen/cache -- leave no trailing slash
define('SQL_CACHE_METHOD', 'database');
define('DIR_FS_SQL_CACHE', '/home/sites/home/web/firesamples/cache');

?>

[randyb]

Does anyone have any idea what would cause this? I'd really like to get the store going.

Thanks, I very much appreciate any help I can get!

R~

[Vger]

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.fire-house.net');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', '');

// Use secure webserver for checkout procedure?
define('ENABLE_SSL', 'false');

// NOTE: be sure to leave the trailing '/' at the end of these lines if you make changes!
// * DIR_WS_* = Webserver directories (virtual/URL)
// these paths are relative to top of your webspace ... (ie: under the public_html or httpdocs folder)
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/firesamples/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '');

Try those settings - you don't define https paths if you don't use ssl on your site.

Your ALL_PRODUCTS text is undefined.

Under Sessions try it with only Prevent Spider Sessions set to true.

Vger

[Ajeh]

You should not have to touch the secure URL that is what setting the Enabled to false does ...

I would, however, upgrade to the current version of Zen Cart v1.3.0.1 ... and then go from there ...

[Vger]

I admit I am a total noob with Zen, but have a vast experience with a certain other cart, and setting enable_ssl to false doesn't always do it. Sometimes you need to leave out any https paths as well. I'm not sure if this is the problem here, but it won't harm to leave them out and might help.

Vger