session state dies

[Dica]

we've just set up a subdomain, 'demos' for one of our projects that normally
works fine. on the login page, if the user enters the correct username/pw,
we write session info and then response.redirect to the home page. this
works for on the normal site, but session state info is dying on the demo
subdomain. i'm sure the session info is being written since i can see it
when i response.write the value. also, the response.redirect uses a relative
path, so it's not that we're accidentally changing domains. any idea what's
happening?

tks

 

[Mark Schupp]

What OS?
Does it happen every time or erratically?
Is the home page in the same virtual directory as the login page? Same
folder? If in different folder, is one or the other inadvertently set to be
an application?

 

[Dica]

What OS?

windows 2000 advanced server

Does it happen every time or erratically?

every time

Is the home page in the same virtual directory as the login page? yes

Same
folder?

yes

If in different folder, is one or the other inadvertently set to be

an application?

i thought there might have been a problem with one of the include files on
the login or home page killing the session objects, so i created a totally
new page without any includes and attempt to response.write the session
values, but 's still blank. new test page is in the same folder as the
login.

 

[Mark Schupp]

Have you worked through everything in this list:

http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2157

Create a simple page that demonstrates the problem and list the code here.
Something like:

<%
If Trim(Session("myvar")) = "" Then
Response.Write "not here"
Session("myvar") = "i'm here"
Else
Response.Write "session var=" & session("myvar")
end If
%>

should change from "not here" to "i'm here" when refreshed. Does it?

 

[Dica]

Have you worked through everything in this list:

http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2157

thanks mark. your link led me to the problem - the subdomain has an
underscore character in it.