ColdFusion session variables are not accessible in other pages - coldfusion

Question

My dept. has just bought CF10 and I'm finally updating my existing web app to CF10 from CF8.
My first problem with CF10 is using session variables. When using the lower versions of CF (CF4 to CF8) I have never had any problem setting up session variables and getting or using these variables in other pages after a successful login. With CF 10 it seems setting session variables and using them in other pages are major problems. I'm not sure what have I done wrong in the code.
First I'm setting the session in my Application.cfc this way:
<cfcomponent displayname="Application" output="true">
<cfset THIS.Name ="MyNewApp"/>
<cfset THIS.ApplicationTimeout = CreateTimeSpan(0,0,20,0) />
<cfset THIS.SessionManagement ="YES"/>
<cfset THIS.SessionTimeout = CreateTimeSpan( 0, 0, 20, 0 ) />
<cfset THIS.SetClientCookies = false />
<cffunction name="OnApplicationStart" access="public" returntype="boolean"
output="false">
<cfset application.Main_DSN = "TESTDB">
<cfreturn true />
</cffunction>
<cffunction name="onApplicationEnd" output="false">
<cfargument name="applicationScope" required="true">
</cffunction>
<cffunction name="OnSessionStart" access="public" returntype="void" output="false"
hint="Fires when user session initializes.">
<cfset session.loggedin = "NO">
<cfset session.username = "">
<cfset session.userrights = "">
<cfset session.usergroup = "">
</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>
After login, user is validated and set values to those session.variables:
........user validation codes here......................
<cfif mylogin NEQ true>
<cflocation url="/login/login.cfm">
<cfabort
<cfelse>
<cfset session.loggedin="Yes">
<cfset session.username="#Trim(Form.username)#">
<CFSET qUserRights = LoginObj.getUserRights('#Trim(Form.username)#')>
<cfset session.userrights = qUserRights><!--- it's a query --->
<CFSET qUserGroup = LoginObj.getUserGroup('#Trim(Form.username)#')>
<cfloop query="qUserGroup">
<cfset session.usergroup = user_group>
<cfbreak>
</cfloop>
<!--- ******* ?????????????????????????
When I do cfdump in at this level, I can see that all of these session variables have
been assigned to their values.
But these session variables are not accessible from other pages. Other pages still show
these session variable without its value.
So, when I use these cfdumps in the index.cfm it is shown as they're not yet assigned
with any values ********* --->
<cfdump var="#session.loggedin#">
<cfdump var="#session.username#">
<cfdump var="#session.userright#">
<cfdump var="#session.usergroup#">
</cfif>
In index.cfm, Before Login I got:
session.loggedin = NO
session.username = ["empty string"]
session.userrights = ["empty string"]
session.usergroup = ["empty string"]
After a successful Login:
session.loggedin = NO
session.username = ["empty string"]
session.userrights = ["empty string"]
session.usergroup = ["empty string"]
Have I done something wrong? This code works on CF8.
I need to mention: CF10 is in Linux and my web app is under https not http. But these session variables should be shared between http and https because some older pages are still in http and can not be moved to https.

Answer 1

I do not have a direct answer to this question. However, the problem is not only in CF10. I am experiencing this in CF8. I create session variables in my application.cfc however they cannot be seen (accessed) in other pages. I believe in your case you may want to consider case sensitive checks since you are on a Linux platform as rudimentary as this may seem if all else fails.