500 Internal Server error with sessions

LordMerlin

I have a very starnge problem

I took phpMyAdmin, and added a login script with sessions, this way, I would be able to assign each user his own mysql server login details, without them knowing what it really is. My problem is, on my test server this works perfectly fine, but on my host's server I simply get internal server error.

I have another site, on the same server, that uses sesssions to login without a problem.

I created a test.php file with the following:

<?
session_start();
session_register('size');
$_SESSION['size'] = 'beeg';

print $_SESSION[size];
phpinfo();

?>

sessions does work on that host, like I said, my other site works without a problem.

On my local machine, it prints fine, yet on the server it doesn't
I don't have access to the logs files, so I can't see what it does. Can anyone please help me with this?

AstroTeg

500 Internal Server error usually means the script or CGI broke the server.

If you're using IE, I'd highly recommend clearing the cache and/or trying another browser to verify you're not looking at a cached 500 error.

If the cache is not an issue, then you'll have to start troubleshooting the code. Probably start yanking any modifications you've made out until phpMyAdmin works again. Then start add bits and pieces in until it breaks.

Instead of gutting your code, maybe take your session code and toss it in a naked PHP file. Maybe wrap a little bit of test code around it to make it functional and then test this file out. Its possible the server is choking on creating the sessions (out of disk space or you/PHP do not have proper permissions to create the sessions). Maybe check with phpinfo() to make sure sessions are supported on that server.

If after all of that, I'd take it up with your web service provider...

drag0n

why do you have phpinfo(); there?
also in php 4.x u dont need to session_register() just start session and put stuff into sessions like:
$SESSION['name'] = "data";
and take off phpinfo(); if you do not need it, sometimes that function overwrites all code before and creates some kind of problems on Windows server, but I dont know about *nix servers.
and also you need quotes arround your $SESSION[name] when you tried to print it out

LordMerlin

mmmm, I seem to be able to browse it via links, and phpMyAdmin seems to be running very nicly with Links, on my FBSD box 🙂
How do I clear IE with this bug? Like I said, another site, on the same server works fine, even though I try to use them at the same time, could this at all be because IE uses the same PHPSESSID? That's just a guess. Else, how do I get around this?

Cause I need to be able to login to the control panel, and once logged in, the control panel will pull the mysql usernams, password and database from my database, and pass that on to phpmyadmin, this way the user's won't see the other databases, even though they can't access it.