Ben Ramsey

Is there a trick to keeping your user logged in with the Symfony EasyAdmin bundle? I have no problem when running things locally, but when working in a production environment, weird things happen, and I see no errors in the logs.

Sometimes, when I log in, I’m 302 redirected right back to the login page. Sometimes, it actually takes me to the admin, but the moment I click on any link, I'm logged out. I can't seem to stay logged in.

#PHP #Symfony

Mar 31 at 4:33amWeb
Show threadTobias Köngeter19h ago
@ramsey In the projects where we use EasyAdmin, that doesn't happen… Is there perhaps something wrong with your configuration? A conflict or something?
Show threadBen Ramsey18h ago
@tobiaskoengeter I don’t know. I don’t have this problem in local dev, so I can’t debug it.
Show threadBen Ramsey18h ago
@tobiaskoengeter This has happened before (about a year ago), and I gave up working on it, so I started over a few weeks ago, and now, it’s happening again. This is just a vanilla EasyAdmin install. I haven’t changed anything from the defaults.
Show threadTobias Köngeter18h ago
@ramsey That’s odd! So it can’t really be a ‘special configuration’. Could it be down to the sessions, and that in turn to the browser settings?
Show threadBen Ramsey18h ago
@tobiaskoengeter I think it must be something to do with the sessions, but I’ve tried in Safari, Vivaldi, and Firefox, and I have this problem in all three, so if it’s a browser setting, it’s something I’ve enabled in all of them.
Show threadBen Ramsey18h ago
@tobiaskoengeter But it’s also weird that none of the browsers have this problem when I run it locally.
Show threadBen Ramsey18h ago
@tobiaskoengeter I’m giving up for the night. Tonight was the first time I had deployed it to prod since I began working on this iteration of it, and I forgot this had been a problem in the past. 😞
Show threadAlessandro Lai18h ago

@ramsey @tobiaskoengeter what's your session config for prod? I don't remember if there's some default difference in Symfony...

Any difference from local to prod?
Maybe HTTPS + secure cookies?

Show threadTobias Köngeter17h ago
@alessandrolai @ramsey Or a VPN that interferes in any way?
Show threadDaniël Klabbers17h ago
@ramsey it's definitely session configuration. Maybe it's set to file and it cannot write. Or perhaps it's redis or something else that is evicting keys or something. Also check if the domain is configured for cookies.
Show threadBen Ramsey9h ago
@luceos Ah ha! I have multiple containers running, and I bet this has to do with sessions writing to files.
Show threadBen Ramsey9h ago

@luceos
@tobiaskoengeter @alessandrolai This was it!

Can you tell I haven’t set up a website from scratch in a loooong time. 😅

I just configured it to use PostgreSQL as the session store, and everything is fine, now. https://symfony.com/doc/current/session.html#store-sessions-in-a-relational-database-mariadb-mysql-postgresql

Sessions (Symfony Docs)

The Symfony HttpFoundation component has a very powerful and flexible session subsystem which is designed to provide session management that you can use to store information about the user between req…

Show threadTobias Köngeter8h ago
@ramsey @luceos @alessandrolai great! 🥳
Show threadAlessandro Lai7h ago
@ramsey @luceos @tobiaskoengeter Ahah, bad assumption from the old times... With containers you don't have a shared disk, so no shared sessions by default 😂