Well I did a fresh install of drupal here
http://lizontest.uuuq.com/I followed the advise from last night and commented these lines out in settings.php
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ini_set('arg_separator.output', '&');
ini_set('magic_quotes_runtime', 0);
ini_set('magic_quotes_sybase', 0);
ini_set('session.cache_expire', 200000);
ini_set('session.cache_limiter', 'none');
ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime', 2000000);
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 200000);
ini_set('session.save_handler', 'user');
ini_set('session.use_only_cookies', 1);
ini_set('session.use_trans_sid', 0);
ini_set('url_rewriter.tags', '');
So now it looks like this.
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# ini_set('arg_separator.output', '&');
# ini_set('magic_quotes_runtime', 0);
# ini_set('magic_quotes_sybase', 0);
# ini_set('session.cache_expire', 200000);
# ini_set('session.cache_limiter', 'none');
# ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime', 2000000);
# ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 200000);
# ini_set('session.save_handler', 'user');
# ini_set('session.use_only_cookies', 1);
# ini_set('session.use_trans_sid', 0);
# ini_set('url_rewriter.tags', '');
I still has some errors but I believe it was some cashing problems. I also did a change to bootstrap.inc and commended out this section as well (around like 379):
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if (count(explode('.', $cookie_domain)) > 2 && !is_numeric(str_replace('.', '', $cookie_domain))) {
ini_set('session.cookie_domain', $cookie_domain);
}
to this:
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// if (count(explode('.', $cookie_domain)) > 2 && !is_numeric(str_replace('.', '', $cookie_domain))) {
//ini_set('session.cookie_domain', $cookie_domain);
//}
This seems to have gotten everything working, but I'm still uncertain as to why it won't work on a site already setup. Seems I need to do some more testing.