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if someone with bit more knowledge than i have can help i would greatly appreciate it.

about a year ago i built a site for one of my clients in expressions engine. the dev server used the url http://ssl130.securefastssl.com/sunnyvalefence once the site went live the url should have changed to http://www.sunnyvalefence.com i have changed all the instance i can find in the config file and the site prefs and all worked well until their server admin changed the way the securefastssl.com works. now it appears then even though i changed the config and site prefs to use the live url parts of expression engine were still using the dev url. (things like the image upload directories and the template urls)

after trying to change all the urls from the ee back end, i eventually gave up and went in throught phpadmin and edited the data base directly. all is fine except for 2 things

first the template url now generates this

http://www.sunnyvalefence.com/index/S=392efc45edb427c3c8e2509514c98e89f5979a1e/?css=site/site_css

it’s correct except for the bold part. and i have run a query searching for that particular string but doesn’t appear to exist.

after a bit more poking around turns out

392efc45edb427c3c8e2509514c98e89f5979a1e

is my session id. why is the session id showing up in {stylesheet={my_template_group}

It looks like you are using sessions ids for authentication purposes. There’s nothing wrong with that, it just means that they will show up in your URL like that.

how do i not do that so the session id quits messing up my urls

Hi offsprg01,

Go to Admin > System Preferences > Security and Session Preferences and change the User Session Type to ‘cookies only’.

Cheers

Greg