Problem with PHP4 sessions on Win32

peprice

Hi everyone,

I've got a copy of apache running locally and have been developing PHP scripts without problems until this morning when I wanted to use sessions.

I'm running PHP 4 and when I use session_start() I get an error saying that the file can't be read from '/tmp'.

I've tried creating a folder called tmp in the apache and php root directories but have had no luck.

Is this a common/known problem and if so, does anyone have a solution?

Thanks,
Peter.

ame12

Try creating tmp under the PHP directory - that may be what it's referencing. Also, check all your session settings in PHP.INI in the Windows directory making sure that the configuration makes sense. If you're running on NTFS make sure file properties are correct and allow files to be written to by a PHP process.

Dave

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knickerlas

Dont panic, it's pretty simple.

Look for a section like this near the bottom of the php.ini

[Session]
session.save_handler = files ; handler used to store/retrieve data
session.save_path = C:\WINDOWS\TEMP ; argument passed to save_handler
; in the

Make sure your session.save path is as above then go create the directory if it doesn't already exist.

Nick

ame12

Excellent answer... but I wonder why the PHP.INI for Win32 wouldn't have this already pre-set or marked in a comment for Win32 installations?

Dave

knickerlas

Hi Dave, long time no speak,

I've no idea, I got all this from books/tutorials.

Nick

peprice

Thanks for that Nick & Dave - very much appreciated. 🙂

Peter.

Anon

Thanks! I was looking for the answer to thois. Appreciated greatly!

Anon

Hi
I'm using PHP4.2.0RC2, WinNT, IIS4 and Oracle 8.1.7
Connected to oracle8.1.7 and executed a query and returned results. Got two session variables to pass to another page, one using the $_session[] and the other using register_session(). Seems to work, finally.