session variables on windows platform

[sweetsri24]

Hi,

I'm running PHP 4 on a windows server where even IIS is running. This is my in-house setup with MySQL and MS SQL running on the same server.

Problem: The session variables used in my code are not carried to all the pages. There is a login page in my site which checks for the username and password and redirects to a welcome page if authenticated.
In the login page I am setting up the session variable and assigning a value and when I try to check that in the redirected welcome page, it is null. But, the same code runs perfectly using PHP 4 on Linux server. What could be the problem when running on windows server??? I have also upgraded my browser to the latest version (IE 6.0 service pack 1).

Code:login page
session_start();
$row=mysql_fetch_array($result);
$_SESSION["login"]=$row[app_no];
header("Location: welcome.php");

Code: welcome page
session_start();
if($_SESSION["login"]==""){
header("Location: login.php");
}

can any one help me in solving this issue??

[bastien]

check the session.save_path section in the php.ini file...ensure it is set to windows paths c:\temp not unix paths /tmp

hth

[sweetsri24]

hi bastien,
thanks for your reply. but still i didn't get the solution as the session.save in php.ini file as follows and it still doesn't work.

session.save_path = C:\PHP\sessiondata

any other solution ??????🙁

[softsolvers]

Helllo
I am also facing the same prob. i had designed an application and it was working fine when path in php.ini was c:\php\sesiondata but my isp has the path ".\" in their php.ini file,so i had made the respective change in my php.ini now session are creating in the root of the application ,and i am not able to fetch session variable,so if you can think in this way and find the solution then do reply at [e-mail]

[bastien]

Originally posted by sweetsri24
hi bastien,
thanks for your reply. but still i didn't get the solution as the session.save in php.ini file as follows and it still doesn't work.

session.save_path = C:\PHP\sessiondata

any other solution ??????🙁

s/b session.save_path = "C:\PHP\sessiondata\"

Don't forget the quotes and trailing slash to indicate a folder

Originally posted by softsolvers

Helllo
I am also facing the same prob. i had designed an application and it was working fine when path in php.ini was c:\php\sesiondata but my isp has the path ".\" in their php.ini file,so i had made the respective change in my php.ini now session are creating in the root of the application ,and i am not able to fetch session variable,so if you can think in this way and find the solution then do reply at [e-mail]

you just need to change the path to match the new set-up and add the sessiondata folder to the filesystem.

For unix:
session.save_path = "/tmp/sessiondata/"

For Windows:
session.save_path = ".\sessiondata\"

[Magosoft]

Ok, every I have done everything in the thread, but.
I'm developing a page with Apache 1.3.X and php-4.3.4,
under Windows 2000 professional.

In my php.ini file I had set the session_path="C:\php\sessions"
when I start the session with:

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['myvar]='Some string';
echo '<a href="test.php">Test</a>';
?>

This creates a file with the name:
sess_56#######.....etc.
When I edit it is says:
myvar|s:11:"Some string"
However, when I hit the Test link on my page
the value does not exists in the new page, and
it creates me a new session file in the session folder.

The code for the test.php file is:
<?php
session_start();
echo $_SESSION['myvar'];
?>

Any help will be appreciated.

MAGO

[bastien]

still missing the closing slash on the ini file

session_path="C:\php\sessions\" <--need the closing slash

[sweetsri24]

Hi,
I have changed
session.save_path = C:\PHP\sessiondata
to
session.save_path = "C:\PHP\sessiondata\" but still the problem persists.

I have noticed a new thing in the process: my system is connected to a LAN and if the application is accessed through some other system using http then the session variables work perfectly. I need not make any changes to the ini file in this case.

The other system which is accessing my site/application in the LAN is running windows XP. But, the problem on my system is not yet resolved.

Help appretiated.

[softsolvers]

why u guys are not thinking about dynamic path,if v will be able to make path dynamically i.e. on the php page then the solution will be forever,but my prob is that while i am using session_save_path in my code it works on local host bcoz i have the rights ,but on the isp i donot have such rights so if u can then plz. help me

[softsolvers]

u can use the dynamic path in the php.pni i.e. (.) for session.save_path and then store the session accordingly where .\ means that u r on the root from where u r running ur page

[bastien]

and if you don't want it in the root?