Trouble with sessions

thoand

Hi
I realy hope anyone out there can help me with this,

I have this site(on a shared server), where I just found that sessions are not working as it used to anymore.

eg. check this out:

http://www.skix.no/start_session.php

this do not generate the errors as expected
eg. I have my session save path set to "test/", and that path does not exsist.
session_save_path("test/");

The server just won't save the session.

here is the scrip in start_session.php

<?php
session_save_path("test/");
session_start();
$test = "Hello World!";
session_register("test");
echo "Test: ".$SESSION['test'];
?>

and here is the PHP info
http://www.skix.no/i.php

Does anyone knows why it don't work?
It did before, and there is not so much help to get from the server provider

thanks in advance,
Best regards

thoand

devinemke

is "test" a valid path on your server? it appears that the default session.save_path is /var/lib/php/session. if you want to specifiy your own session.save_path it must be a valid path that you have read/write permissions to. try this:

<?
session_start();
$_SESSION['test'] = 'Hello World!';
echo 'Test: ' . $_SESSION['test'];
?>

chyan

how did you know the path doesnt exist?

did your php shows error massages?

could you post the error massage from php for better description

thoand

how did you know the path doesnt exist?

Because I've checked it via Shell 🙂

did your php shows error massages?

No, and that is what I find strange

could you post the error massage from php for better description

All output I get is:

Test:

I guess the server is ignoring session save path and errormessaging, but I try to compare the phpinfo() to another server which work as expected, but I can't find any differences under the session group.

thoand

Originally posted by devinemke
is "test" a valid path on your server? it appears that the default session.save_path is /var/lib/php/session. if you want to specifiy your own session.save_path it must be a valid path that you have read/write permissions to. try this:
<?
session_start();
$_SESSION['test'] = 'Hello World!';
echo 'Test: ' . $_SESSION['test'];
?>
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Hi devinemke
Your script worked