Session Variable in a Secure page-- problem

[sfullman]

I get this message when executing session_start() ...

Warning: open(/tmp/sess_7ae3a373ae3cfb937589aa99b157d9e1, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13)

I only get this message when I'm using SSL, i.e.:
https://www.blackletters.com/c/main/en/login/index.php

when I remove the "s" I don't get it:
http://www.blackletters.com/c/main/en/login/index.php

I think this has something to do with the domains the session cookie works for. Any clues in how to solve this problem?

Thank you,
Sam Fullman
Compass Point Media

[nightowl]

sure your /tmp is world writable ?

[sfullman]

Your reply was: sure your /tmp is world writable ?

Can you elaborate on this? thanks! I'm not that familiar with global settings and all.

Sam

[jeremuck]

folders have groups of permissions.
owner
group
world (called other things)

Each of those has the ability to Read, Write, and eXecute.

The whole thing can be represented by one 3 digit number in octal format, (eg. 666, 777) or as a string rwxrwxrwx.

You can type in ls -lt in the command prompt and it will list the directories along with the permission as a string.

Anyway, he is asking if the world has the ability to Write to the directory.

[nightowl]

indeed - and you can change that by typing

chmod 777 /tmp (if you have root access).