url issues

[cesarupb]

hello dear experts,

i am newbye in magento 2, i would like to receive your adivices, my actual project url always shows another extra part in its url... something like this:

mysite.com/?SID=06494453041a35d8750447b975e61280

whats does it mean?

thanks for all of you that could help me!

[Ankita Biswas · Accepted solution]

Hello @cesarupb 

Hope you are doing great!

As you said your url is appending with SID (mysite.com/?SID=06494453041a35d8750447b975e61280).

The SID is a "session ID". Magento uses this to track a user's activity within the same Magento installation. Normally, Magento powers one website and one store from one installation (database).

Magento could power multiple websites with multiple stores from one installation though. The SID allows users to stay logged in while navigating across these websites/stores.

I think if you have the function enabled, the SID is sent when accessing catalog URLs so Magento can update the session with the user's location/state for the current website/store.

If you're not running a multi-website or multi-store environment, it's safe to disable the SID on the frontend.

For this Go to the Store > Configuration > General > Web > Session Validation Settings > Use SID on Storefront and set its value to No.

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