sessions enabled but not working

samafua

hi,
i installed php as an apache module. when i run the php info() it showed that sessions were enabled.but all my scripts with sessions won't work.. i installed php as a cgi now i can use sessions but it seems the cgi is not a flexible as the apache module so now i want to go back and use the module . my question is why is the session not working?
i am very new at php-apache.

piersk

Please post the code u are using.

stolzyboy

generally when working with sessions it is not as often a server or php config problem, but a coding problem, sessions are sometime tricky if you aren't too handy with them, as piersk said, post some code and someone will be more prepared to help you

alanzhao

I can think of two errors:

php.ini

' is it a valid path? /tmp doesn't work under windows
session.save_path = /tmp

script

// call this before session_register()
session_start();

samafua

could u please explain the last post are u saying tmp does not work under windows? not very clear on that

stolzyboy

to use sessions on a windows box you need to setup a tmp directory, usually C:\tmp, for the sessions to keep the session id's and session cookies stored in

sottwell

I have been working with Linux/Apache/Mysql/PHP for about three years now with little trouble. I am working with an ISP that has PHP version 4.2.3, and my scripts (testing/development) work fine. I just upgraded my local server to PHP version 4.3.1, and upgraded again today to 4.3.2. The same scripts do not work on my local server. The problem seems to be in the session management system, and it seems to have something to do with cookie management. The sample scripts in the PHP manual for sessions and cookies work fine on my ISP's older PHP, but the persistant cookie will not set on my local, new version. Session cookies work fine. My local tmp directory (/tmp) is working fine; GD works as does file upload. I cannot see why the persistant cookie will not write to my client. In fact, I set my browser to "prompt", and the persistant cookie isn't even sent, while the session cookie is.

<?php
$value = 'testing...';

$result1 = setcookie ("TestCookie", $value); // works fine
$result2 = setcookie ("TestCookie", $value, time()+3600, "/", "", 0); / expire in 1 hour (doesn't work)/
echo $result1 . ", " . $result2; // echos "1" in both cases, but no cookie is received.
?>

stolzyboy

go to your php.ini and around line 235 or so, look for register_globals, most likely it was on before, then when you upgraded it is off by default, turn it on if you want, but i would suggest using the new ways of grabbing variables instead of just a

$variable

use

$GET['variable']
$POST['variable']
$COOKIE['variable']
$SESSION['variable']
$_FILES['variable']

make sure to restart apache to make the php.ini changes take affect // only with apache module, not cgi version