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

You need to check that EVERYTHING on the new server is identical to the old server... an older or newer version of software could do it, maybe even different htaccess settings...
2 other things to consider...
Maybe a file got corrupted during the move... Or there is something on the server side messing things up... the free hosting company I used to use had popups, and because of those popups you couldn't use a regular site map for google indexing because the popups injected something into your page.

I also just found this... Session won't initialize or remember state between requests

What I didn't know is, the call to setcookie will automatically prefix the domain with a period (.) for compatibility. Which on a root-level domain name, it will enable this cookie to be accessed on all subdomains. Which, not realizing this, gave me 2 session cookies and a big mixup happened.

There seems to be 2 ways to fix this:

Set the cookie configuration value to something else.

Set the domain to "www.example.org" so that it is only available to the root-level domain name.

And this [solved] Sessions sometimes not persisting across requests