Session Problem

[Matthew Miner]

Recently a client moved an application that has been running successfully with PSA for several months to a new host. He contacted me after moving the app indicating they could no longer access their pages. The following error is being received.

Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: /tmp) in /data/sites/18236/paintersandcleaners.com/www/schedule/phpsecurityadmin/include/config.php on line 78

Any insight?

Thanks
Matt Miner

[Justin Koivisto]

Is the new host is safe mode? Try setting the session.save_path to a directory inside the user's home directory. For instance, try something like:

ini_set('session.save_path','/data/sites/18236/paintersandcleaners.com/phpsess');

You may also have to adjust the permissions for this directory.

[Matthew Miner]

Thank you for the suggestion. I added the ini_set to config.php.

with permissions to 777 on /data/sites/18236/paintersandcleaners.com/phpsess I get the following:

Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: /data/sites/18236/paintersandcleaners.com/phpsess) in /data/sites/18236/paintersandcleaners.com/www/schedule/phpsecurityadmin/include/config.php on line 80

Safe mode is off.

All pages work ok if I comment out <?php //require_once "phpsecurityadmin/_restrict.php"; ?>

There are no other session starts other than PSA in the application code.

However if I go directly to the admin functions of PSA things work fine ie.

http://www.paintersandcleaners.com/schedule/phpsecurityadmin/index.php

opens fine and I am able to login as administrator and perform all admin functions to the database.

Matt