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Random Session Start errors

FlexIDXFlexIDX
edited August 2006 in Vanilla 1.0 Help
Hello, I randomly am recieving this error message: Notice: session_start(): ps_files_cleanup_dir: opendir(/var/sessions) failed: Permission denied (13) in /home/callgirl/public_html/library/Vanilla.Session.class.php on line 63

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  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    Sounds like a server setup error. Do you have any other apps running which use sessions? Are you hosted with a company or by yourself? If you're with a company and you dont use sessions elsewhere (i.e. its not necessarily just a vanilla issue) it might be worth asking their support team.
  • FlexIDXFlexIDX
    It is on a shared host, and I am not using sessions any where else... I just am starting the domain, I figured it was a host issue, but I figured I would ask here first.. Thanks.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    Sure thing. Give them a shout and see what they say, if you dont have any luck come back and we'll give it some more thought.
  • blubberblubber
    having same problem as FlexIDX could you solve the problem? i do not have any session problems with other applications. thanks
  • MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    Your other applications might not use php sessions. This is a server configuration issue, not a vanilla issue.
  • blubberblubber
    ok interesting, as i do run own applications with php session handling without any problems. im on a public LAMP configuration: mysql 4.0.24, Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/4.3.10-16 mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7e ist the error inquestion related to some kind of session cleanup call within vanilla?
  • MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    edited August 2006
    This is the error quoted above:

    Notice: session_start(): ps_files_cleanup_dir: opendir(/var/sessions) failed: Permission denied (13) in /home/callgirl/public_html/library/Vanilla.Session.class.php on line 63

    It looks pretty straightforward to me. session_start was called and it failed to access the sessions directory, returning a "Permission denied" error. Server problem.
  • blubberblubber
    edited August 2006
    this is what i found: as mark stated this is a server issue related to the php session garbage collection. some providers seem to prevent access to the session_save_path on purpose out of security reasons (but it could also be a misconfiguration). - the error shows just randomly according to your php setup (look for session.gc_probability and session.gc_divisor); to trigger the error on every session call (for testing purpose) you may set ini_set('session.gc_divisor',1) before session_start() - a way to avoid the error would be to set your own session_save_path (and make the folder writeable) - much simpler is to turn off detailed error_reporting in vanilla (appg/headers.php) as the error qouted is a 'Notice:' error that is only shown with detailed error reporting hope that helps
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