Problem with my webserver

Adamthenewbie

hello

I installed iis 5.1 on windows XP pro and also installed the PHP decoder. It works fine except for the php pages that contain session variables, etc. I get all these errors. How do I fix this?? I can't seem to figure it out on my own any help would be great

Thanks
Adam

mystrymaster

Code samples and errors please

Adamthenewbie

<?
session_start();
session_register("fromHTML");
$fromHTML = true;
?>

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(C:\Program Files\php\sessiondata\sess_a790a928c1606d08bdbb4223ab3aa6ac, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\trackie\defaultHTML.php on line 2

Here is an example using session variables

nozom

you need to change the session save_path in the php ini file.

i created a directory in c:\php called 'tmp', then in the php.ini file i changed the following line of code to below.

session.save_path = c:\php\tmp

Then restarted the webserver.

Should work ;-)

Adamthenewbie

didnt seem to work? Could it be something else?

jimson

Permission denied (13) in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\trackie\defaultHTML.php on line 2

please show me the defaultHTML.php
start from line1 to line5

and the file that included defaultHTML.php if it is included.

Adamthenewbie

Here is the first part of defaultHTML.php. The second PHP part is just a counter.

<?
session_start();

session_register("fromHTML");

$fromHTML = true;
?>

<?
$filename = "PHPCounterHTMLSITE.txt";

$fp = fopen( $filename,"r");
$Old = fread($fp, 100);
fclose( $fp );

$Old = split ("=", $Old, 5);

$NewCount = $Old[1] + '1';

$New = "HTMLCounter=$NewCount";

$fp = fopen( $filename,"w+");
if (flock($fp, 2)) {
fwrite($fp, $New, 100); }
fclose( $fp );
?>

jimson

well, did u have PHP manual in ur hands?

according to php manual...
u got to do session register by specifying the variable first,

<?php
$barney = "A big purple dinosaur.";
session_register("barney");
?>

ok, to set solve it, please

<?php
session_start(); 
$fromHTML = true; 
session_register("fromHTML"); 
?>

hopefully, this can solve ur problem...

Weedpacket

And does the server have permission to read and write in that directory (C:\Program Files\php\sessiondata)?