Strange Session Issue

ade234uk

The site I am developing is currently on shared hosting. For some strange reason, every so often the session just dies. I have checked my code and there no issues. Nothing is killing the session in the code.

I get the following error
Warning: Unknown(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0

I looked at the session cookie that was created in Firefox. I noticed my cookie under the domain, but then I noticed another cookie under my site which read osCid. Now this is an oscommerce cookie, what is going on here?

My hosts have to said to me to write my session to a different directory. How can I do that?

bradgrafelman

ade234uk;10991065 wrote:
My hosts have to said to me to write my session to a different directory.

That was going to be my suggestion as well.

ade234uk;10991065 wrote:
How can I do that?

Change the value of the PHP directive session.save_path as noted in the error message. See the manual page [man]configuration.changes[/man] for more info on how to change PHP's configuration.

ade234uk

Thank you for the help. I have found this example to change the session path
http://www.uk-cheapest.co.uk/web-hosting/change-session-save-path.php

ade234uk

Ok update. I set the session path using an .htaccess file. I can now see the session files in the folder.

One last question. Do they automatically delete periodically once the session closed / browser closed down?

bradgrafelman

See the three session-related configurations prefixed with "gc" (which stand for "Garbage Collection") in the PHP manual beginning with session.gc_probability.