[Mediawiki-l] Conflicting PHPSESSID cookies when accessing two wikis on the same site

Tue Nov 9 21:03:39 UTC 2004

This may be helpful. In /Includes/DefaultSettings.php, lines 84-86 in
my version:

 # Other wikis on this site, can be administered from a single developer account
 # Array, interwiki prefix => database name
 $wgLocalDatabases   = array();

Try setting this to the other wiki's, if you can. (I'm not sure if
this is what you want, so you may want to try it on a private server
first)

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:04:37 -0500, Jamie Bliss <astronouth7303 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If possible (I'm not sure it is), you may want to have the two wikis
> use the same User table. This, of course, may conflict with your
> intentions would be a bit "hacky" to implement.
> 
> Of course, even if you got it to work, I'm not sure how well it would
> work (depending on how much is stored in the User table).
> 
> Are there any mechanisms for sharing tables in MediaWiki?
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:11:20 +0100, Terry Jones <tc.jones at jones.tc> wrote:
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > I've looked for an answer to this in the FAQ and also in the archives
> > of the mailing list.
> >
> > I run a mediawiki wiki, and allow my browser to accept cookies that
> > store my wiki user name and password. This works fine. However, I
> > recently added a second wiki on the same server and now find that
> > every time I switch from looking at one wiki to another I have to
> > re-login to each wiki.
> >
> > I had a quick look at my browser's cookies and it seems like the right
> > thing is being done for the name and password cookies (these both
> > contain the wiki name, making them wiki specific). But there is a
> > single PHPSESSID cookie which I guess is the culprit. I.e., if I look
> > at wiki A and then go to wiki B and log in, I get a new PHPSESSID
> > cookie. This, I am guessing, is then invalid when I return to wiki A.
> >
> > Is that likely to be what's causing my problem? If so, what can I do
> > about it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Terry.
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