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Hey Michael,

What’s the details on the Dev server? Is it a sub-domain of the main site? Are you running ExpressionEngine in both locations?

You very likely need to set an explicit Cookie for your dev site.

Admin > Security and Privacy > Cookie Settings: Cookie Domain

Set that to .dev.domain.net - using the proper values, of course.

I suspect EE is mixing your live and dev sites with a cookie set for the main domain, which is being invalidated when the Control Panel times out.

Cheers,

It’s a bit of an odd setup, since it’s been something I’ve only been able to devote time to intermittently over the years. 😕

http://www.example.com is an iWeb site (*shudder*).
ee.example.com is a never-launched EE1 site on an MSM setup (the primary site is on a different domain entirely). The cookie settings for said site are blank.
ee2.example.com - the dev site in question - is a completely separate EE2 install. The cookie domain is set to “.ee2.example.com”.

So I’m guessing that perhaps the cookies being set by the ee.example.com EE1 install are messing things up?

Hey Michael,

That sounds about right. I believe that is what Dan is saying.

Have you used FireFox and FireBug (using Firecookies) to see if you can track the cookies? That might help clear things up.

Cheers,