Permission denied (13) with Session_Start()

victim

Hi there,

I have just recently converted my PHP application to use Search engine friendly URLs and ma now having problems getting the sessions to start.

I am getting this error when i use the session_start() function:

Warning: open(/tmp/sess_d0eeb00718959832ea596787b221a5f1, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in /home/www/zerophobic/ngn/rules.php on line 41

The server is using PHP 4.1.2 and this doesnt happen if i use normal ULRs with the a query string.

you can view it here:
www.zerophobic.com

and you will notice there is no error when you do a search on the site because it uses the un-masked URL.

any ideas???!!!

cheers,

brett.

Weedpacket

Yes, PHP is saying that it doesn't have permission to save a file in the /tmp directory (pretty, straightforward, huh?). It's trying to do this because it needs to store the session data somewhere, and it's picked that directory.

For it to work, though, it needs to have permission to write stuff in there. So you'll need to change the permissions of /tmp so that the server can use it.

victim

Thanks, but the strange thing is that it works with the normal Query String URL's so it must have permissions in some way.

Have you every come across it not working with different URL types?

I'm using a Force-Type directive with Apache to get the Search friendly URLS by the way.

Weedpacket

URL types have nothing to do with it. If you're not using sessions because you're putting all the information is in the URL, then PHP isn't writing any session data and you don't get any problem with not having permission to write session data.

victim

Thats fair enough, but how come i get two different results on the same server with almost identical scripts?

EG 1:
Using force-type directive and parsing the URI to get the Vars
http://www.zerophobic.com/ngn/engine/SID/200.htm

EG 2:
Using standard Vars in the URL
http://www.zerophobic.com/ngn/engine.php?SID=201

The SID stands for Section Id but I am using sessions with session_start(). I have tried passing the PHPSESSID via the URL but to no avail.

Any help is realy great, thanks.