Magento won't keep sessions on front end only - php

I've got a Magento store that refuses to keep session information on the front end. Strangly the admin works fine. PHP independent of Magento is able to write sessions. Magentos var/ directory is writable by the webserver. I can even see files being written to var/session.
This site is running on ec2 under nginx. I wasn't having these problems previously under Apache and as far as I can tell the configuration of Magento itself is the same.

Yes this was it. I wasn't able to see this in the Firefox console, but in Chrome I could see the domain was wrong ( although it looked ok in the admin, but maybe I was confused ) updated all cookie_domain fields in core_config_data table and its working. Thanks #datasage

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Problem with sessions on nginx using xenForo

I have an major problem with xenForo Logins on nginx and tried everything foundable out.
The xenForo is not the problem it workes fine on an other apache server but I need to move it to nginx.
I'm using the newest nginx and php7.1, php-fpm and all requested sources for xenForo are installed. Other Sites (like Roundcube) works fine. I use the default site config for all sites with - so far - no problems.
Now, for the problem. When I logi to my xenForo ACP the login works fine but I get immediately logged out. Some times I get logged out a few minutes later, when I change the site. On the user site the login works pretty fine als long as I stay on the forums pages (as the forum, member page, profiles) and get logged out when I use a 3rd party site programmed by me (worked fine on apache without problems).
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In the php.ini file I set the correct path for the sessions to /var/lib/php/sessions and with an external simple script I proved that the sessions are saved correctly with no problems.
No errors displayed.
As long as I can say, everything works fine just the Login makes real trouble and I get out of ideas.
Maybe someone here can help me and find something I didn't see.
Kind Regards,
//Edit:
I found out that this Problem Not appears on the user site if the "Keep me logged in" button is ticket. Ob ACP there is no such button.
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I found out, that the Cookie didn't get dropped, it's still there.
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I want to run a project from a client locally for development for obvious reasons.
This is a Magento shop and I've made a copy of the /public folder and the database. Put the /public contents in a Homestead box and imported the database, as it should work just fine for other non-laravel projects which use PHP, MySQL etc, right?
I changed the secure and insecure URL's in the database config table and it seems to work mostly.
The only problem seems to be that when I go to sitename.app:8000/admin it opens the admin page, but when I log in, it redirects to sitename.nl/admin, so the live version..
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I seem to have fixed it already!
go to /public/var/cache and delete all the contents.
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My problem is, the site is down again today and again i cleared these directories solved the issue.
I need a permanent solution for this please help.
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Check file/folder permissions are correct (http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/m1x/install/installer-privileges_after.html).
If you need to clear cache directory automatically, ask the server provider to setup a cronjob to clear the cache directory in a specific time period (https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/84186/automatically-refresh-cache).
Note: this issue is not related to Magento installation, this is something related to the server. Also ask Magento related question here: https://magento.stackexchange.com/
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Kunstmaan Bundle admin login incorrectly redirects to homepage after system update, does not log in user

I have the Kunstmaan CMS bundles (Symfony 2.4 version) installed on a project that had been working fine until a system update a couple days ago; now, when attempting to log into the admin panel (/en/admin; /en/login) I get redirected to the homepage as an anonymous user, unless I explicitly check the "Remember Me" option in the login form.
This same issue arose simultaneously across all projects using these bundles, including ones that hadn't been modified in weeks.
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Found the problem.
My project was saving the sessions to %kernel.cache_dir%/sessions. Because I'm hosting the project in a VM, but editing the files from my workstation proper, the permission structure in my projects dir is a bit odd; Apache is running as apache:apache while the ownership on sessions dir was 1000:1000, and the session files within are rw------- 1000:1000. Apache can't write to these files.
This had been working fine previously, so in my last system update something apparently either changed the permission structure somewhere, or started stricter enforcing of a messed up system that had no business working in the first place.
Rather than muck around with the permissions in that dir, I just changed the symfony framework config:
framework:
session:
save_path: /tmp/myprojectname
Problem solved, and I can log in normally.
You should fix your /path/to/app
E.g. http://127.0.0.1:8888/web/app_dev.php/en/admin/login
If you are still having issues: I have recorded my notes here.

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