Why would Laravel Sessions fail in just Safari and IE after switching server?

Question

New VPS server with Webmin, Apache Centos 6, Laravel application and old database schema. All working fine on old shared host, but on VPS for some reason Laravel\'s Session

Answer 1

This is a classic IE/Safari cross-domain/iframe problem.

Potential fix for Laravel IE iframe cookie problem (worked for me). Just add this to your App::after filter.

App::after(function ($request, $response){
  $response->header('P3P', 'CP="IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS"');
});

You can even specify, for which route you need this header, for me, it was everything beyond /external/, so the code looks liek this:

App::after(function ($request,$response){
    if($request->is('external/*')){
        // IE iframe cookie fix
        $response->header('P3P', 'CP="IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT"');
    }
});