session open failed ?

Anon

System: PHP4.06 + Apache 1.3.20 Win32 + Win98 (the session configurations
are default in php.ini)

when the 1.php is running, the IE shows 2 errors as below:
Warning: open(/tmp\sess_5176646ce5a800db9101970b80d507f6, O_RDWR) failed: m
(2) in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\web1\1.php on line 2

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output
started at c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\web1\1.php:2) in
c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\web1\1.php on line 6

The scripts of 1.php: (1.php and 2.php are under the same base directory)
<?
session_start();
require("html-head.inc");
$name="user";
session_register("name");
header("Location: 2.php"); / let the IE automatically turn to the 2.php /
require("html-foot.inc");

?>

The scripts of html-head.inc:

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>page title</title>
</head>
<body>

The scripts of html-foot.inc:
</body>

From the first error:
"Warning: open(/tmp\sess_5176646ce5a800db9101970b80d507f6, O_RDWR) failed:"
Why there are "/" and "\"in "/tmp\sess..."?
Please give me some advice on the 2 errors!

Anon

you have to give the sessions dir info to php.ini... right now it defaults to /tmp (assumes unix)

because you are on windows, change this to something like

c:\php\sessions

anything outside of your web directory. of course you'll have to create that directory.

now restart apache and you are good to go.

satish

Dear PHP User,

I am facing the same problem below.

Warning: open(/tmp\sess_5176646ce5a800db9101970b80d507f6, O_RDWR) failed: m
(2) in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\web1\1.php on line 2

Can you tell me if the suggestion to change the path of the tmp directory in php.ini worked or you had to make some other changes.

Satish

Anon

the error says specifically open() failed.

what did it try to open? /tmp\sess......

why would that fail? it is an invalid directory.

where does it get that directory? the php.ini file.

to solve your problem, you HAVE to edit the php.ini file to set it up to propery handle sessions. that is exactlly the problem.

here is my setup in my php.ini file on my windows test server:

session.save_path = c:\php\sessions

i created the 'sessions' directory in the already existing 'php' directory.

this will (and does) work. enjoy!

satish

Thanks for the support. I got this message after editing the session.save_path to read as C:\php\sessions.

In fact for some strange reason, the output of my phpinfo also does not reflect the change in the path. It continues to show the path as /tmp.

As is the normal practice, I restarted Apache after editing the php.ini file.

I am using Apache 1.3.14 and php 4.06 on a Win 98 OS.

I am mystified with this problem. I cannot understand why this is happening.

Can someone help.

Thanks.

Anon

yes!!
this was very helpful!!
btw-i had a folder called sessiondata already there...

Anon

you may have edited the local php.ini file (the one in your php directory)

you have to edit the php.ini file in the windows directory WINNT or WINDOWS

satish

No! I am editing the php.ini file in my windows directory (I am on windows 98.

By the way what is the role of the php4ts file. I have also moved this file to the windows directory. Have I done something wrong which could be causing this problem.

Regards,
Satish

Anon

actually you are... the php4ts needs to be in your windows/SYSTEM or WINNT/SYSTEM32 directory (the 'SYSTEM' directory)

satish

Finally I solved this problem. Here's what I did.

I copied the php.ini optimized to my windows directory and it worked. Now I can specify any path for storing the session data.

The trick (at least for windows 98) is not to use the php.ini distribution but to use the php.ini optimized !

Thank you all for your helpful suggestions. Hope my solution will help others facing this problem.

Satish