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Magento 1.9 CE running on LAMP stack.

Users land on site initially and they are getting Magento's "please enable use of cookies" page. They refresh and it is gone. I confirmed this behavior for Chrome and Safari.

Some are saying this is the solution to prevent it: Go to System –> Configuration –> General –> Web –> Session Cookie Management –> Cookie Lifetime = 5400

However my cookie lifetime was already set much higher than that and if you refresh even once the cookie is gone - changing cookie lifetime is not the fix.

I know how to turn it off: Go to System –> Configuration –> General –> Web –> Browser Capabilities Detection –> Redirect to CMS-page if cookies are disabled = No

But I'm most interested in what is actually causing it.

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  • Is this a public or a local install?
    – brentwpeterson
    Sep 2, 2014 at 16:24
  • Public install.
    – sparecycle
    Sep 2, 2014 at 16:25
  • Have you tested saving your sessions to the DB instead of files?
    – brentwpeterson
    Sep 2, 2014 at 16:30
  • No but I will. Doesn't that imply that there might be an issue writing sessions to the server?
    – sparecycle
    Sep 2, 2014 at 16:36
  • I've edited my answer with new things
    – versedi
    Dec 11, 2014 at 17:15

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  1. Check if time (date and timezone as well) are set correctly on your server.
  2. Check if Base URL of your installation is set correctly at System > Configuration > Web
  3. Check if your sessions can be saved on filesystem or in DB. Open app/etc/local.xml file and look for <sessions> section, it is either set to files or db. Make sure that files can be written under var/session or in database and there is enough disk space or inodes.
  4. If you use any third-party caching extension (turpentine or FPC or cache extensions that utilize varnish etc.), try disabling these extensions. To completely disable extension edit its XML config in app/etc/modules/Extension.xml and change <active> tag to false.
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You can use this free extension it can help you easily

https://www.webinse.com/magento2-cookie-alert
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If you are using a localsetup then you can try out this:

enable cookies issue in chrome and safari

This solved my problem also i was facing an issue with admin login in chrome, this solved it too. You won't have to do anything else.

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