Hello,
we are running internal blog site in non-default port (8082 to be exact) and I had issues with administration site. After successful login, each action afterwords resulted in redirection to login page.
PivotX version: 2.3.9
Database type: MySQL
By searching for cause of the problem, i discovered that during initialization of PHP session invalid COOKIE DOMAIN was set.
Source file: objects.php
PHP class: Session
Approximate line number: 2045
In the constructor of Session class, predefined PHP variable $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] is used to determine valid cookie domain.
That value also contains a port number appended to the host name. (example: pivotx.pinecone.int:8082).
As far as I know at least Google Chrome and Firefox will discard such a cookie witch results in inability to identify session in any future HTTP request.
As a result, PivotX thinks I'm not logged in ($_SESSION["user"] variable is empty).