I am trying to upgrade our site from 4.0 to 4.1 per the Laravel docs. The site worked fine prior to the upgrade. I made all the changes per the 4.0 to 4.1 upgrade documentation.
What is happening is that AFTER the user logs in and is redirected to the home page the $this -> beforeFilter( 'auth' ); kicks the user back to the login page. We do use our own custom authentication method but I have stepped through the code and it authenticates and returns the user model to laravel. The authentication controller then does a return Redirect::intended( '/home' );. Also, our session data is written to the database (database driver).
Am I missing something?
Ok, so I am monitoring the sessions table and Laravel keeps adding NEW sessions every time I log in or am redirected. Why isn't Laravel using the previous session that was set? I see cookies being set on my browser (Google Chrome).
Look in /app/config/session.php under session lifetime.
If it is set to zero (0) change it to 120 or something.
// 'lifetime' =>0,
// change to this
'lifetime' => 120,
Lifetime set to zero has different behaviour in 4.1 and causes the session to be recreated.
Thank you sitesense! That fixed it! Wouldn't have guessed that!
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