Session error

[Stinger51]

Due to a windows crash, I recently had to reinstall Apache and PHP. And now my seesions are not working. I get this error :

Warning: open(/tmp/sess_5f976cacdfd6d10e6e9de60fd076cba6, O_RDWR) failed: m (2) in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\website\index.php on line 2

The local file "index.php" calls session_start()

I've checked my php.ini file to make sure it contains this line :

session.save_path = c:/windows/tmp_php

I'm using "tmp_php" to store the session variables.

Apache is working, as I tested it with the simple php.info command.

Any ideas out there?

Thanks in advance.

[hessian]

If you are using NTFS, I would look at the permissions of the temp directory and be sure that IUSER_{MACHINE_NAME} (Or whatever user apache is running as) has permission to write to it.

[Stinger51]

I'm runnng FAT32 (Win 98). The folder is r/w. Before the crash, I was running Win Me, and did not have this problem. But Win Me was always crashing, so I rolled back to Win 98. Now everything is more stable -- except for this new issue.

Yeah, time for Linux, I know. But then I'll have a whole separate host of problems, I hear. :rolleyes:

[Stinger51]

I created a top level folder called "tmp". I did <u>not</u> change anything in the Windows php.ini or Apache httpd.conf files again. The line in the php.ini file still reads as :

session.save_path = c:/Windows/tmp_php

And now sessions are working. It appears to me that PHP is trying to use the original installation .ini file in the installation folder, not the .ini file I dutifully moved to the Windows folder and modified as above. 😕