Issue Staying Logged into Admin

[mdpny]

Hi,

I have upgraded an installation of PP to 1.6, and the admin section keeps booting me back to the login screen. I had the same issue on a test upgrade to v1.5, and eventually avoided upgrading my working p-blog as the issue could not be resolved, either through removing addons, removing cookies, etc.

I am now very interested in upgrading my main site to 1.6, but need to make sure I can stay logged in, otherwise reliable posting may be an issue.

There are a couple other closed threads on the issue, but they didn't solve my problem. I understand it has something to do with session IDs not storing, though can't seem to find a way around this. Not sure if it has something to do with my host, configuration, or what.

I am on a Mac, OS 10.4.8, tried in Safari, and Firefox, on several machines (both home and work)

Could anyone offer any guidance? I'd be really greatful!
-matthew





My install info is below:

You are running Pixelpost version: 1.6.0 (in the right direction) - April 2007
Latest Pixelpost version: You have the newest version of Pixelpost!

Looking for help or want to give feedback, please step into Pixelpost forum.: forum.pixelpost.org

Host Information

URL http://test.mdpny.com/admin/index.php

PHP-version 4.4.4 (Pixelpost's min requirement: PHP version: 4.3.0 )

Session save path /var/php_sessions

MySQL version 4.1.18-standard-log (Pixelpost's min requirement: MySQL: 3.23.58 )

GD-lib bundled (2.0.28 compatible) with JPEG support

File Uploads to Pixelpost site are possible.

Server Software Apache

EXIF Pixelpost is using exifer v1.5 for EXIF-information.

Paths
Guessed imagepath: /home/users/web/b2586/pow.mpowell/test/htdocs/images/

Configured Imagepath: ../images/

Image Directory: OK - Can we write to the directory? YES. Current CHMOD: 0755

Thumbnails Directory: OK - Can we write to the directory? YES. Current CHMOD: 0755

Language Directory: OK

Addons Directory: OK

Includes Directory: OK

Templates Directory: OK