session.use_trans_sid =1 required to login to Back end

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jsavage
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session.use_trans_sid =1 required to login to Back end

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I am having trouble loging in and it looks like the issue documented here:

From http://www.phpwcms-docu.de/index.php?error_messages

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error message: 
  
Login not possible. This is not exactly an error message but it's possible to appear. The login screen is shown again and you see your name in the "logged in list" at the left but actually you're not inside the backend. 
  
solution: 
  
Open your servers php.ini and set the following value to 1

 session.use_trans_sid = 1 


The trouble is that my hosting company will not change the php.ini and the value is currently 0 as shown below. This seems sensible so this does beg the question - Why does phpwcms require this ? and is there another workaround ?

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; trans sid support is disabled by default.
; Use of trans sid may risk your users security.
; Use this option with caution.
; - User may send URL contains active session ID
;   to other person via. email/irc/etc.
; - URL that contains active session ID may be stored
;   in publically accessible computer.
; - User may access your site with the same session ID
;   always using URL stored in browser's history or bookmarks.
session.use_trans_sid = 0

James
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