Session Lost

bekim

Dear All,

Recently I wrote a login page and works fine on the Window OS, however the same script does not work in the Linux (FEDORA), Apache/2.0.52. The session is not available in different pages, I assume that I should do some kind of setting ether php.ini or some Apache system configuration but I don't know, please help and thanks in advance.

Here is the script that does not work as intended:
<?php
// page1.php
session_start();
echo 'Welcome to page #1';

$SESSION['favcolor'] = 'green';
$SESSION['animal'] = 'cat';
$_SESSION['time'] = time();

echo ' <a href="page2.php">page 2</a>';

<?php
// page2.php
session_start();

echo 'Welcome to page #2 ';

echo "".$SESSION['favcolor']; // green
echo "".$SESSION['animal']; // cat
echo "".date('Y m d H:i:s', $_SESSION['time']);

echo ' <a href="page1.php">page 1</a>';
?>

Not desired output:

Welcome to page #2

1970 01 01 01:00:00

bekim

Thanks for the time and effort for u who have taken the time to view the problem, however I have found the solution to the problem myself and here it is:

The webserver was running on different user than its'default apache user, so it did not have parmission to write file sessions to /var/lib/php. I just chmod to 777, not the best security but for test reason is just fine.

[client 10.11.4.188] PHP Warning: session_start(): open(/var/lib/php/session/sess_dd84a1e110b69999352f06d41daf32b7, O_RDWR)
failed: Permission denied (13) in /var/www/html/bin/site/index.php on line 14

Weedpacket

So; have you gone through php.ini and compared the settings there with the settings on the Windows machine? Have you also looked at your browser's settings (if you don't see why, a close reading of the section in the manual on sessions and what the ini file settings mean should provide the answer).