Kohana_Exception [ 0 ]: A valid cookie salt is required. Please set Cookie::$salt

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dwstein picture dwstein · May 3, 2013 · Viewed 9.9k times · Source

I'm working through this tutorial (http://kowsercse.com/2011/09/04/kohana-tutorial-beginners/) and have run into this error message:

Kohana_Exception [ 0 ]: A valid cookie salt is required. Please set Cookie::$salt.

I'm a n00b and don't even know where to look for Cookie::$salt in the app.

Answer

kero picture kero · May 3, 2013

You have to provide a salt as you can read in the official documentation

//bootstrap.php
Cookie::$salt = 'foobar';

I can highly recommend the official doc as well as the API browser. When you learn how Kohana works, you will learn first of all the meaning of the error messages and how you can handle them yourself

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