Session handling

[lykeat]

Hi there. When I try to use the session to keep the user id, I faced some problems. In my script I use session_start(), but it shows me following error message.

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(/tmp\sess_3e45e293685a508e85782a9390b384b6, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in c:\MySite\add_search_con.php on line 4

My OS is Windows XP. I install the apache by using the "PHPTriad". I had download the PHP5 binary file from internet because PHPTriad is not providing the PHP5 and replace the old php folder in PHPTriad. I also replaced the "php.ini" into the "c:/windows" and all the dll files from the "dlls" folder together with "php4ts.dll" are replaced in the folder "c:/windows/system32".

Please show me the steps to fix this out.

 

[bastienk]

The path to the folder where the sessions data is not set correctly. Its still set at a Unix default.

Open the php.ini file and look for the sessions area. There is a line

session.save_path

alter the save path to "C:\temp"; or to whatever folder you want to use....

hth


Bastien

Cat, the other other white meat

 

[karnaf]

Now this is weird, I'm having sort of the same problem.

Running Apache 2 server with PHP 4.3.0 on a WinXP Pro OS
I have the same session_start error as it did for lykeat.

I tried several times to change the php.ini file under c:\windows but it looks like it doesn't affect the system at all! I tried testing it by changing other things on php.ini (like register_globals) but it looks as if the system isn't reading it. WTF?

Could it be that there is some other 'hidden' ini file the system is reading instead of my precious c:\windows\php.ini???

thanks!

 

[karnaf]

found it.

my PHPIniDir in my httpd.conf wasn't set correctly, and so Apache couldn't find the php.ini.