Re: [phpesp-general] open(/tmp\sess_..., O_RDWR) error in windows

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Samuel Wright wrote:

> Hiya
>
> Any suggestions as to this  error?
> Warning: open(/tmp\sess_415c60d599cd461764cc337c9d3bb925, O_RDWR) failed: m
> (2) in c:\phpdev\www\phpesp\admin\manage.php on line 10

This happens on Windows when the "session.save_path"
setting in the php.ini (config file for php, not for
phpesp) is set incorrectly. Yes, the default in this file
is "/tmp" which typically does not exist on Windows. Make a
dirctory on your webserver called "C:\php-tmp" or
something, and set session.save_path to that path. For more
information on session config directives refer to the
following PHP manual page:
  http://www.php.net/session

Also I might as well note that there are problems with PHP
running as an ASAPI module for IIS. If you are running
under Windows, it is strongly recommended that you run
Apache. If anyone does get phpESP to run on Windows with
IIS, please let me know, so I can add some information to
the documentation.

> Is there an archive where I can search for mistakes to
> avoid reinventing the wheel?

There is an archive, but it is not too useful:
  http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=phpesp-general
Perhaps I will make a FAQ or add a better archive when I
have time.
-James