Persisting sessions across subdomains in Laravel 5

Question

Using 5.0

in config/session.php I have set 'domain' => '.example.com' but it is not working. I cannot persist a session on even one domain like this.

My site has many subdomains:

vancouver.example.com newyork.example.com 

etc... they are hosted on the same server and are the same Laravel app (share the same storage directory)

I login with the correct credentials, upon which the app redirects to another page on the site, and I have no session at that point. var_dump(Auth::user()) shows null even though I logged in with the correct credentials.

storage/framework/sessions shows 14 different files there, they are all for me and I cleared them out before I started testing this.

I'll attach my AuthController@postLogin method below, which works fine if session.php 'domain' => null

public function postLogin(Request $request) {     $this->validate($request, [         'email' => 'required|email', 'password' => 'required',     ]);      $credentials = $request->only('email', 'password');      if ($this->auth->attempt($credentials, $request->has('remember')))     {         Session::flash('message', 'You are now logged in.');         Session::flash('status', 'success');          if (str_contains($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], '?goto=')) {             $params = explode('?', $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])[1];             $target = explode('=', $params)[1];         } else {             $target = '/';         }          return redirect($target);     }      return redirect($this->loginPath())                 ->withInput($request->only('email', 'remember'))                 ->withErrors([                     'email' => $this->getFailedLoginMessage(),                 ]); } 

Answer 1

Figured it out. Update domain => '.example.com' in session.php and clear the cookies for the site in question.

Answer 2

@gadss

you need to add session table like this

php artisan session:table  composer dump-autoload  php artisan migrate 

and change .env to SESSION_DRIVER=database

also modify config/session.php

'driver' => env('SESSION_DRIVER', 'database') and

'domain' => '.yourdomain.com' 

after that clear your browser's cache and cookies.