I have a simple program which uses apache session and cookies... Now my problem is that when I go to the program via domain.com/cgi-bin/prog.pl, it does not seem to be able to tie the session hash to the id found in the cookie.

But running the same program from directory level 132.345.45.46/directory1/cgi-bin/prog.pl it is able to tie the session hash to the id found and then add to it as expected...

What seems to happen is that it gets an id from the cookie, and then it succeeds in the eval block, but when it exits from the eval block the $id is defined as undef...

Anybody got any suggestions... 
$id = $query->cookie(-name=>"SESSID");
eval {
    tie %session, 'Apache::Session::File', $id,
        { Directory => "$cartInfoPath",
          LockDirectory => "$cartInfoPath"};
};

if ($@) {
    if ($@ =~ /^Object does not exist in the data store/) {
        $id = undef;
        tie %session, 'Apache::Session::File', $id,
            { Directory => "$cartInfoPath",
              LockDirectory => "$cartInfoPath"};
    }
}

if ($id == undef) {
    $cookie = $query->cookie( -name=>'SESSID',
                              -value=>$session{_session_id},
                              -expires=>'+1y', 
                      -path=>'/');
    print $query->header(-cookie=>$cookie);
    print "Assigned session ID ".$session{_session_id}."<br>\n";
} else {
    print $query->header();
    print "Not assigned session ID already ".$session{_session_id}." <
+br>n";
}

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