Sharing session in domain and sub-domain

[maqsudinamdar]

I've two Laravel application on same server but on different path. And I want to merge both application by sharing session.

Both of these application has domain and sub-domain combination namely:

• example.com
• tool.example.com

And I'd like authenticate user in tool.example.com from authenticating in example.com using following articles.

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Exception has occurred. Illuminate\Auth\AuthenticationException: Unauthenticated.

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I tried the following:

1. Sharing the cookies, sessions and users between the applications
2. Use the same APP_KEY
3. Use the same domain

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example.com Laravel application I did the following:

.env

DB_DATABASE=common_database
SESSION_DRIVER=database
APP_KEY=same_key
SESSION_DOMAIN=".example.com"

• Storing session in database. link

• In example.com we're using example Guards with example Provider using Example Model to authenticate web request.

config/auth.php

    'guards' => [
        'example' => [
            'driver' => 'session',
            'provider' => 'example',
        ],
    ],

    'providers' => [
        'example' => [
            'driver' => 'eloquent',
            'model' => App\Example::class,
        ],
    ],

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Similarly, tool.example.com :

.env

DB_DATABASE=common_database
SESSION_DRIVER=database
APP_KEY=same_key
SESSION_DOMAIN=".example.com"

• In tool.example.com i've assigned the $table variable as example in User Model

User.php

class User extends Authenticatable 
{
    protected $table = 'example';

config/auth.php

    'guards' => [
        'example' => [
            'driver' => 'session',
            'provider' => 'users',
        ],
    ],

    'providers' => [
        'users' => [
            'driver' => 'eloquent',
            'model' => App\User::class,
        ],
    ],

Note: I'm expecting to use example table to authenticate request in both application.

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Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! in advance.

[Thomasosho]

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