PHP session ends abruptly while using mod_rewrite in .htaccess

[Sandeep2010]

Hello Everyone

I have a shared web hosting account. I have a login script,which after successful login,sets $_SESSION["username"] to a particular value and redirects the user to index.php. In .htaccess I have written some rules to modify the URLs of this type: index.php?id=something to index-id-something.htm .

There are links in index.php which takes the user to this URL: index-id-something.htm. Now the problem is, in index.php the session works properly but when the URL is changed to index-id-something.htm the session gets destroyed automatically! But when I type this in URL : index.php?id=something session is not destroyed. It works properly.

What could be the possible problem? Any help will be highly appreciated.

Thank You Very Much!

[abduraooft]

but when the URL is changed to index-id-something.htm the session gets destroyed automatically!

Have you configured your server to parse php in html files? Do you have the necessary code to get SESSION in your html file as well? Does your redirect makes any www to no-www switch or its reverse?

[Sandeep2010]

Originally Posted by abduraooft

Have you configured your server to parse php in html files? Do you have the necessary code to get SESSION in your html file as well? Does your redirect makes any www to no-www switch or its reverse?

Yes the problem was with the .htm extension. When I changed the extension to .php it worked again. I think session was not getting passed to html pages.

Anyways thanks for the insight.