By yabis0109
I have deployed a node express server on digital ocean. However, it won’t create the session once it’s deployed. I added a store to prevent memory leak and initialized app.set('trust proxy', 1), before the session. I am creating a user for the session once the user is authenticated. The snippet below shows the configuration for the session.
app.use(
session({
key: "userid",
secret: "subscribe",
resave: false,
saveUninitialized: false,
store: sessionStore,
cookie: {
expires: 60000 * 60,
domain: ".section-webapp-y793v.ondigitalocean.app"
}
})
)
app.get("/login", (req, res) => {
if (req.session.user) {
res.send({ loggedIn: true, user: req.session.user })
} else {
res.send({ loggedIn: false })
}
}
)
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Heya,
DigitalOcean’s App Platform provides a fully managed environment for deploying applications. However, the issue you’re experiencing seems related to how Express and session handling works in general, rather than anything specific to DigitalOcean’s platform.
In the context of your current issue, you can try the following:
- Ensure Secure Cookies: When deploying to a production environment, cookies should be set with the
secure: trueoption to ensure they’re only sent over HTTPS. This is especially true if the server is behind a proxy (which is common on most hosting platforms like DigitalOcean). Try updating thecookieobject in your session setup:
cookie: {
expires: 60000 * 60,
secure: true,
httpOnly: true,
domain: ".section-webapp-y793v.ondigitalocean.app",
sameSite: "none" // You may or may not need this line depending on your use-case.
}
- Set Trust Proxy: When running a server behind a proxy (like what you typically would do on platforms like DigitalOcean), you may need to include the following line before your session setup to ensure the session is correctly maintained:
app.set('trust proxy', 1)
- Session Store: Check your session store is working properly in the DigitalOcean environment. If you’re using a memory store like
express-session, remember that memory stores are not designed for a production environment. They will leak memory under most conditions, do not scale past a single process, and are meant for debugging and developing.
For a list of compatible session stores, see the compatible session stores in the express-session readme.
Remember, changes to your session or cookie configuration will typically require a server restart to take effect.
If none of these solutions work, please provide more information or any error messages you’re seeing. I’d be happy to help further.
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