SESSION.SAVE_PATH change???

**RootShell** · 10-14-2004, 06:36 AM

After almost two months using my website without changes, today i got emails complaining about the site not being usable due to a session_start() error...

I cant figure out what's wrong since i DONT change the code since August... Maybe someone could help me out?

How can i clean the /tmp dir if i cant see it? the one i have when i log in is completly empty

here's the error message...

Warning: session_start(): open(/tmp/sess_3ef8648f316bd212d76e9b3cf4c265f4, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in /home2/jdocajan/public_html/ntg/includes.php on line 2

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/jdocajan/public_html/ntg/includes.php:2) in /home2/jdocajan/public_html/ntg/includes.php on line 2

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home2/jdocajan/public_html/ntg/includes.php:2) in /home2/jdocajan/public_html/ntg/includes.php on line 2

I tried uploading all the php files thinking that it might be something that got corrupted, but no... every file is ok...

The problem seems to be a bad session that might prevent others from using anymore sessions... OR any change made by JAG to the preferences of PHP, since PHP cant find the dir according to the report received...

Warning: Unknown(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0

HTML Code:

echo session.save_path;

returns

HTML Code:

sessionsave_path

Shouldnt it be something like a physical path (Ex: /tmp) ?

The website is located at http://ntg.docaj.net

Regards,
RootShell

**RootShell** · 10-14-2004, 07:47 AM

PROBLEM SOLVED !!! JAG probably were doing some maintenance and already solved the error

**jason** · 10-14-2004, 02:13 PM

session.savepath is just a setting in the php.ini configuration file. It doesn't translate into an PHP variable, although I think there is something like $_SERVER['SESSION_PATH'] or somethig similar (I'm not sure of the exact variable name). The echo statement that you posted did just what you told it to: it printed the string values of "session" and "save_path." The period disappeared since it is the string concatinator.

Glad you got the problem fixed. It looks as if permissions on /tmp were temporarilly change from 777 to something that the server couldn't write to.

--Jason