Apache (XAMPP) on local Vista

[cornishpirate]

My faithful old XP desktop development PC died, so I was forced to carry on using a Vista machine to host Apache.

 

The only problem is that Add to Basket no longer works, so I guess it's a configure/sessions problem.

 

Running everything as Administrator, so can't see why there should be any permissions problems.

 

Any ideas ?

[Guest]

What settings are you using in admin under Configuration->Sessions and also in your configure.php

[cornishpirate]

What settings are you using in admin under Configuration->Sessions and also in your configure.php

 

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.xxxxx.co.uk');

define('HTTPS_SERVER', '');

define('ENABLE_SSL', false);

define('HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'xxxxx.co.uk');

define('HTTPS_COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');

define('HTTP_COOKIE_PATH', '/');

define('HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH', '');

define('CONFIG_CACHE',DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'nhcache.php');

define('DIR_WS_HTTP_CATALOG', '/catalog/');

define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '');

define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');

define('DIR_WS_ICONS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'icons/');

define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');

define('DIR_WS_BOXES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'boxes/');

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', 'pub/');

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', 'C:/xampp/htdocs/catalog//');

define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'download/');

define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'pub/');

 

define('DB_SERVER', 'localhost');

define('DB_SERVER_USERNAME', 'root');

define('DB_SERVER_PASSWORD', '');

define('DB_DATABASE', 'yyyyyyyyy');

define('USE_PCONNECT', 'false');

define('STORE_SESSIONS', 'mysql');

 

 

From sessions:

 

Session Directory tmp

Force Cookie Use True

Check SSL Session ID False

Check User Agent False

Check IP Address False

Prevent Spider Sessions True

Recreate Session True

 

This all worked under XP. Setting Force Cookie to false makes no difference - still can't Add to Basket.

[Guest]

If you are running the site on your local machine you need to change

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.xxxxx.co.uk');
define('HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'xxxxx.co.uk');

to localhost unless you are using a hosts file to simulate a domain

 

Force cookies must also be set to false - cookies won't work on a localhost

 

When "add to basket" doesn't work how are you trying to add to basket and exactly what happens?

[Guest]

Force cookies must also be set to false - cookies won't work on a localhost

 

Aint that the truth.

[cornishpirate]

If you are running the site on your local machine you need to change

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.xxxxx.co.uk');
define('HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'xxxxx.co.uk');

to localhost unless you are using a hosts file to simulate a domain

 

Force cookies must also be set to false - cookies won't work on a localhost

 

When "add to basket" doesn't work how are you trying to add to basket and exactly what happens?

 

Cookies set to False - same result: goes onto shopping_bag to show empty basket.

 

Yes - using Hosts files, set through Hostsman.

[cornishpirate]

It's confession time!

 

I was too ready to blame Vista. The default XAMPP Apache setup had register globals off.

 

Sorry guys.