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Expression Engine: Why is the Session ID part of the URL

I am in the process of updating an EE site on a dev server. I copied the database and all the core files over and in testing the links many (not all) are coming up with the session number in the middle of the URL as follows:

http://dev.myurl.com/S=169fe023498b4203567a5c3db2629348c99908d1/blog

I have never seen this before and it breaks the links. Any clue what is causing this and more importantly how I can get rid of it?

Thanks.

Solution

  • That's a preference under Admin > Security and Privacy > Security and Sessions.

    Set User Session Type to Cookies only. Any selection that contains Session ID will use a token in the URL to track the user's session.

    If you're using config-file overrides, this triggers the same thing:

    $config['user_session_type'] = "c";