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Better Auth•10mo ago
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Help with Middleware Session Cookie (Development vs Production)

Hey everyone! I’m running into an issue with my middleware, and I can’t quite figure out what’s causing it. The problem occurs when switching from the development environment to production.

Here’s the scenario:
In Development: The getSessionCookie function returns the session cookie as expected.
In Production: After logging in, the session cookie is always 
null
.

Here’s the code I’m working with:
import { NextRequest, NextResponse } from "next/server";
import { getSessionCookie } from "better-auth";

export async function middleware(request: NextRequest) {
    const sessionCookie = getSessionCookie(request); 
    console.log(sessionCookie);
    // If the user is not logged in, redirect to the login page or '/'
    if (!sessionCookie) {
        return NextResponse.redirect(new URL("/auth/signin", request.url));
    }
    return NextResponse.next();
}
 
export const config = {
    matcher: ["/private/:path*"], // The middleware will apply to all routes that start with '/private'
};


What I’ve tried so far:

  1. Verified that cookies are being set correctly in production.
  2. Checked that the environment variables and configurations match between dev and production.
  3. Tried logging the sessionCookie to see if there's any difference, but it still comes up as 
    null
     in production.
Has anyone encountered this before or have any idea what might be causing this behavior?
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