Session Variables / IIS Virtual Hosting

[blst]

i am working on setting up a website that is on a shared windows server we have
and coldfusion won't hold the session variables. ie. if i set the var on one
page as #session.varname# and output it on that page, it's fine. if i try to
set it one page then output it on another page, it's empty. it's on IIS 5 and
the original website i set up is working fine. the datasources all work from
site to site, but this doesn't seem to. it's kind of an emergency if anyone
can help, i would really appreciate it. thanks!

[Sameer]

1. Make sure you have enabled SESSIONMANAGEMENT="Yes" CLIENTMANAGEMENT="Yes" inside Application.cfm

2. If that still doesn't work, embed variable #SESSION.URLTOKEN# to your link to another page.

[blst]

thanks for the reply, but i don't seem to find Application.cfm on the server.
also, it works for the other sites on the server, just not this one. i have't
ran into this before, and i have not done anything special when setting up the
other sites. when i put the same test pages on another virtual site on the
same server, i get the CFID=&CFTOKEN= in the url, but not on this one.

[Sameer]

You just answered your own question.........."i don't seem to find
Application.cfm "...........you must have this as this file tells the server to
switch on the session management capabilities as specified by you with
<CFAPPLICATION> tag.

[blst]

sameer, as you were probably typing that, i realized what had happened. i created the app.cfm file and all is well. thanks very much. too bad i wasted about 1.5 hrs trying to fix it before asking.

[Sameer]

Well, it wasn't a waste.......you learnt the hard way......as most of us did.......;)