[RESOLVED] Sessions no longer working

[doublehops]

Last night my hosting provider upgraded to the latest version of PHP5. (It was previously running with the last release of PHP5).

Anyway, this morning I start work to find that all sites running session are getting this error

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 32205 is not allowed to access owned by uid 0 in /home/scooters/public_html/session_test.php on line 12

Fatal error: session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: Failed to initialize storage module: files (path: ) in /home/scooters/public_html/session_test.php on line 12

It seems that safe mode has been turned on when it otherwise was not. I'm not sure. I contacted the hosting company and they said I need to rewrite my scripts to suit. I have looked into this possibility but not sure what I can change.

This simple script that follows is enough to create the error.

session_start();
$sess_id = session_id();

Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do here?

[atokatim]

it looks like your host turned on Safe Mode. If you can contact your host, see if they can turn Safe Mode off. If not, the only thing that i know to fix this would be to change the sessions into cookies using setcookie("var", "value", 0); and $_COOKIE['var']

[doublehops]

Thanks for the response atokatim. I'm sure sessions should work with Safe mode On.

Without making any changes to my script, sessions have started working again. I'm sure that something has been changed on the server end but not sure if I'll ever find out.

As long as they stay working I will be satisfied.