Remote server moved hardware - now no one can login at the forum

Sicko

Greetings,

I had my site moved to another hardware at my remote VPS, while maintaining the same domain and remote paths.

Now the forum is displaying some strange warning messages and can't login. Some has any idea what could it be?

Here's the address: http://lolhehehe.com/forum/

Dinoboff

Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/var/lib/php/session) in Unknown on line 0

There are some problems with your php session settings. Make sure Apache or php has write permission on "/var/lib/php/session".

Sicko

How would I do that? Sorry for the dumb question

Dinoboff

It is not a dump question but it is specific to your server.

But you should let your provider or sysadmin know about it and ask them to fix it. If you don't have support, look in your provider faq or ask on their forum how to correctly setup php session.

Sicko

It is a VPS, so no support.

I have all access to the server, just need to know how to do it. Is there any place I can find this info?

Dinoboff

ps aux | grep httpd
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/php/session
sudo chown -R [APACHE USER NAME] /var/lib/php/session
sudo chmod -R 700 /var/lib/php/session

The first command will show the Apache process. The first column will show the Apache user name (one will be "root" but it just Apache process manager).

Sicko

Did it, but the issue persists.

I did a ls -la at/var/lib/php/ and it returned:

drwx------ 2 apache apache 4096 Apr 7 2009 session

Dinoboff

To check if the permission is the problem, try:

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/lib/php/session

Sicko

That was it. Thanks a lot man.