Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:56:47 UTC
Is there some change with the way Cookies and Host are handled? I've noticed on my own MediaWiki-driven site that after saving an edit or saving preferences I would get redirected to a page asking me to log in again. My Apache server is set up with the ServerName as <domain>.<tld> and a ServerAlias of www.<domain>.<tld>. I was logged into my account with www.<domain>.<tld> in the URL. After I hit save on an edit page or preferences I noticed I was being redirected to <domian>.<tld>/wiki/<Page> instead. The cookie 'site' is <domain>.<tld> but the info in the cookie shows Host of www.<domain>.<tld>. The browser isn't sending the cookie info on the redirect. This seems to have started since I upgraded, I swear. I can't remember this happening before with 1.5.8. I've tested this both on Firefox and Opera. Start request POST /index.php?title=TyvaWiki:Sandbox&action=submit Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 13268 Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------146043902153 Cookie: wikidb_tw__session=****************; wikidb_tw_UserID=2; wikidb_tw_UserName=Sborsody; wikidb_tw _Token=******************** Host: www.tyvawiki.org Keep-Alive: 300 Referer: http://www.tyvawiki.org/index.php?title=TyvaWiki:Sandbox&action=edit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2 Start request GET /wiki/TyvaWiki:Sandbox Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Connection: keep-alive Host: tyvawiki.org If-Modified-Since: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:33:57 GMT If-None-Match: W/"wikidb:pcache:idhash:*******************" Keep-Alive: 300 Referer: http://www.tyvawiki.org/index.php?title=TyvaWiki:Sandbox&action=edit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2
Set up your server to consistently use a single hostname and redirect alternates to the canonical form, or you can expect to have such troubles.
