Problem with login script..

supermeera

Hi Everyone,

I'm having a problem with my login script. It was working fine for months, and then my Hosting company did something to the server and it's no longer working. They're complete idiots (by the way never host with www.aspwebserver.com, horrible tech support) and don't know how to help me, so I thought I'd try here.

Basically if you access any of my php pages (for example, www.elluminata.com/default.php, I get the following error in the page:
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open (C:\PHP\sessiondata\sess_ceaa3e11e7341d164afd665896c0662f, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in C:\webspace\aspweb\elluminata\elluminata.com\www\includes\session.inc on line 3

The error only flashes on screen momentarily, you'll actually have to View > Source, to see the actually error message in my PHP code.

To see my phpinfo, please visit, www.elluminata.com/phpinfo.php. I have no idea why this wouldn't work now, I haven't made any changes to the script since June, and it was working fine until a week ago. One thing that I did notice was in the phpinfo() that under PHP variables, the _COOKIE["PHPSESSID"] is set to ceaa3e11e7341d164afd665896c0662f. I even tried my logout script to try to destory any session variables, but that gives me a whole bunch of errors too, http://www.elluminata.com/logout.php.

Please, does anyone have any suggestions!

Thanks so much.

bastien

it looks like the php engine does not have permission to write to the

C:\PHP\sessiondata folder...check the permissions

what is the os and webserver?

Moonglobe

what's the OS? i believe only Windoze uses drive letters 😉

and seeing as its at aspwebhosting, i would think that it's running IIS.

[edit]btw i can't even get to the site... it can't resolve the host.[/edit]

bastien

can you post the code (or at least the first 20 or 30 lines)?

supermeera

Hi Bastien and Moonglobe,

Thanks for your reply. As far as I know it's a Windows 2000 server running IIS. Now I don't think I have privilages to view the permission for the C:\php\session directory, so I can't really tell you if I have write privlages to it, I will email the tech support at ASPwebserver and get back to you.

As for the code I'm running this is the first few lines:
<?php
include("includes/session.inc");
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Elluminata.com<title>
</head>
<body>

Session.inc has the following code in it:
<?php
ob_start();
session_start();
header("Cache-control: private"); // IE 6 Fix.
?>

I have just uploaded another page http://www.elluminata.com/test2.php to my server which basically only has the following lines of code:
<?php
session_start();
?>

I get a lot of errors with just that:

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(C:\PHP\sessiondata\sess_76be83464cc1dafc79b0444627a14e6d, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in C:\webspace\aspweb\elluminata\elluminata.com\www\test2.php on line 2

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at C:\webspace\aspweb\elluminata\elluminata.com\www\test2.php:2) in C:\webspace\aspweb\elluminata\elluminata.com\www\test2.php on line 2

Warning: Unknown(): open(C:\PHP\sessiondata\sess_76be83464cc1dafc79b0444627a14e6d, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (C:\PHP\sessiondata) in Unknown on line 0

I'm at my wit's end.. I don't know what's wrong.

LordShryku

Definite permissions problem. Try doing this. 50/50 chance of working. Might need a .htaccess instead

ini_set(session.save_path, 'C:\path\your\stuff');
if(session_start()) {
    echo "Success";
}
else {
    echo "Nope. Still not working";
}

bastien

see [man]chmod[/man]...it does work to some extent on windows...

try adding this to the page that starts the session

// Read and write for owner, read for everybody else
chmod ("C:\sessiondata\somefile", 666);

note: not quite sure about the somefile value here...i believe it should be the same as the $phpsessid value...you might need to test that

you can also test with [man]is_writable[/man] to see wha the permissions are on the directory

if (is_writable("C:\sessiondata\"){
    echo "dir has write priviledges";
}else{
    echo "not writable";
}

note: make sure you give your Internet user account (usually IUSR_MACHINENAME) "Modify" access to the session.save_path directory. Otherwise session_start() will silently - and oh, so slowly - fail.-->from user notes of sessions

hth

supermeera

Hello everyone.. Thanks for responding again..

I'm acutally getting another error when I try to execute either Bastien or LordShryku'a code:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $end in C:\webspace\aspweb\elluminata\elluminata.com\www\test2.php on line 8

I did google search, and that usually mean's that a { has been forgotten, but I can't see it, could be I've been staring at this code for too long, but here's the code I'm using:

<?php
ini_set(session.save_path, 'C:\webspace\aspweb\elluminata\elluminata.com\www\session\');
if(session_start()) {
println("Success");
} else {
println("Nope. Still not working");
}
?>

If I replace the above if statement with:
if (is_writable("C:\sessiondata\"){
echo "dir has write priviledges";
}else{
echo "not writable";
}

I get the same error..

tekky

on the is_writable() you are missing the closing ) for the if statement 😉

supermeera

Hi Tekky,

Sorry I did try closing that with a ")" and I still go the same error!

I must have pasted that from the original posting!

tekky

also try putting your file paths in ' quotes not " quotes

"quote can have problems with \'s sometimes 😉

supermeera

Hi Everybody!

I've finally gotten the script to work and fixed the error on my login script!!!

This at the end was the ini_set code I used:
ini_set("session.save_path", "C:\webspace\aspweb\elluminata\elluminata.com\www\session");

The problem was I had "session\" at the end, and PHP didn't like that last forward slash, once that was gone, the code worked like a charm!!!

Thanks everyone for their help, I couldn't have figured it out without you guys!

tekky

Originally posted by tekky
also try putting your file paths in ' quotes not " quotes

"quote can have problems with \'s sometimes 😉

would be wise to remember