session doesn't work? Help!!!

Anon

I'm new to the whole session thing, but was able to figure out how to get things running. However, the session was working on my local PC running PWS on win98. When I uploaded the pages to my server (win2k, IIS 5.0) I get a "Page cannot be displayed" error.

I figure out that the error occurs from any session command (i.e: session_start()). In other words, the pages load fine on their own, but as soon as I add any session command, the page will no longer even load, let alone give me some kind of error. And yes I put the session_start() as the very first statement.

Any help would greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Anon

what version of PHP is running on the server?

Anon

Hi, I'm running 4.0.6 on both my PC and the server.

Anon

let's see the code of one page that doesn't work.

Anon

Essentially, the code is any session command. For example, I might have an html page:

<head>
<title>etc.....
</title>
bla,bla,bla

The page loads fine (without the session code). But when I add the session code:

<?
session_start();
session_register("somevar");
?>

<head>
<title>etc.....
</title>
bla,bla,bla

Now with the session code inserted I get the "Page unavailable" error. Like I said though, it works (or seems to work) perfectly on my PC. Is it possible that some how my win2k server needs some other info set up in the php.ini?

Thanks for bearing with me so far, I appreciate your time!

Anon

copied from the docs (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php):

This is out to all the people trying to get sessions to work at all...

If you are getting error messages here are two things that you have to do:

Make your session_start() the first function in your code, even before the tag.
In your php.ini file under the header [session] there are two things that have to be filled out correctly:
session.save_handler and session.save_path
examples of the values are:
session.save_handler = files session.save_path = /tmp
For this example, you are using apache, make sure theses dir's exist:
c:\apache\htdocs\files
c:\apache\temp

And my final bit of advice is read the WebMonkey tutorial on Sessions, avaliable at http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/05/index2a.html?tw=programming

-Peter Feiner