Site Admin 26.1
Site Admin Installation Guide

# Rename the Session Cookie

By default, Site Admin uses the session cookie `ISASESSIONID` to store session details. You can optionally rename the session cookie, for example if you want to run multiple instances of Site Admin on the same domain and keep the session details separate.

To rename the session cookie

- Start Site Admin with the Java run command, and include the following arguments:

      -Dserver.session.cookie.name=MYNEWSESSIONNAME

  where `MYNEWSESSIONNAME` is the new session cookie that you want to use.

  For example:

      java -Dserver.session.cookie.name=ISA1SESSIONID -Didol.idolsiteadmin.home=[home directory] -Dserver.port=[port] -jar siteadmin.jar -uriEncoding utf-8

If you run Site Admin as a service on Windows, you can also add the same arguments to the `siteadmin.xml` file.

If you run Site Admin as a service on Linux, you can add the argument to the existing arguments variable in `siteadmin.sh` for SysV, or `siteadmin.service` for systemd.

When you modify the Site Admin configuration by modifying the XML file or start scripts, you must restart Site Admin to apply your configuration changes.

For more information on installing and running Site Admin as a service on Windows or Linux, see Install Site Admin.

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Product: Site Admin 26.1

Topic Title: Rename the Session Cookie