ERROR 8: session_start‎()‎ - V 4.2.3

[Andreas Otto]

After installation of 4.2.3 I found several times the following entry in the log:

    Anonymous - ERROR 8: session_start‎()‎ ‎‎: ps_files_cleanup_dir: opendir‎(/tmp)‎ failed: Permission denied ‎(13)‎; 0 Error occurred on in function session_start1 called from line 333 of file session.php in function require_once2 called from line 79 of file config.php in function require3 called from line 29 of file individual.php

Since the entries always start with …Permission denied (13)… I believe that I have a problem with my file permissions.

Anyone who can help me?

Andy

[Greg Roach]

Your server appears to be configured to save PHP sessions in the /tmp directory.  This is not one of the "standard" locations, and indicates a misconfigured PHP installation.

If this is a shared host, you can ask your ISP to investigate.

Alternatively, you can tell PGV to ignore the default location and use its own.

Create a directory called "session" inside your index directory.  Make sure it has the same permissions as index.  i.e. it must be writable by the web-server.

Then, in your site configuration, set the session.save.path setting to this directory.  Use the full path (starting with /), such as /home/users/andyotto/html-docs/phpgedview/index/session

If you can't log in to get to this setting, you can edit config.php to enter it manually.

[Andreas Otto]

Thanks!

I have access to the php.ini and changed the path in there. It seems to work :-)

Thanks again!

Andy