Session lost after redirect in Codeigniter

Question

I\'m using codeigniter as a framework.

Firstly, I use localhost but when I change to my IP address the login function doesn\'t work anymore. I found that th

Answer 1

I solved this problem by configuring the $config['cookie_domain'] to localhost

$config['cookie_domain']    = "localhost";

i initially had that variable set to fully qualified domain name such as www.exampledomain.com but meanwhile i was using a local server.

The domain that your script is running under should be the same as the domain set under $config['cookie_domain] to avoid unexpected failure with codeigniter session class.