Session IDs

[anna245 +]

how can i take off the session ids? google is indexing my pages with the session ids included.

[Eric Barnes +]

You can try adding this to a php file like includes/init.php

PHP Code:

ini_set( 'session.use_cookies', 1); 
ini_set( 'session.use_trans_sid', 1); 


If that doesn't work you may have to contact your host and have them change it.

[anna245 +]

where would i place that code in the file?


what exactly would I be asking my hosting company to do to stop the session ids?

[anna245 +]

I found this article:

http://www.ragepank.com/articles/26/disable-phpsessid/

will this technique work with 68classifieds? If so, where would the step 2 code go?

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by anna245

I found this article:

http://www.ragepank.com/articles/26/disable-phpsessid/

will this technique work with 68classifieds? If so, where would the step 2 code go?

Step number one on the page in the link tells you to do basically what Eric said.
The issue you are having is a web host issue and not 68C specific. Any site that uses sessions on your host will have the same issues.

With that being said, you need to tell PHP how it should handle sessions. To make a global change your host would have to get involved. However, if they allow users to over ride some of the default values this can be done by having 68c script tell PHP what values to use. Thats what Eric mentioned above by adding the code to one of the files mentioned. Then everytoime a page on your 68C site is loaded it will tell PHP how to handle sesions.


The other method, which is outlined on the link you posted is to add those 2 lines to your .htaccess file in the root of your web space. This does the same thing as ading the commands to a script like Eric mentioned above. It tells php how to handle sessions.

Either way is fine assuming that your host allows you to over ride these values. If they dont, then you are going to have to contact your host and tell them to enable trand_sid.
If your host is set up to allow those values to be over ridden you should be fine

[anna245 +]

When I tried placing the code in the includes/init.php file, the session ids were still there.

I tried the other method which was suggested in the blog and it works. no more session ids. However, I didnt not do step 2. where would i put that code? is it necessary?

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by anna245

When I tried placing the code in the includes/init.php file, the session ids were still there.

I tried the other method which was suggested in the blog and it works. no more session ids. However, I didnt not do step 2. where would i put that code? is it necessary?

I think I would wait on doing there step 2 and 3 and see if the sessions ID's go away in your google links.