Session tmp directory problem

[KempCGDR]

Hi, I just installed Apache 1.3.28, php 4.3.3 and mySQL 4.0.14 on my WinXP machine (home development). I still can't believe I got them to work first time. Anyway, everything works fine, except for anything to do with sessions, I get the following error:

Warning: session_start(): open(/tmp\sess_ffbb6a546b1f3207780a0aacd2fa19a0, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in c:\localwebserv\

http://www\appmansys\checkuser.inc.php

on line 3

Obviously the problem originates when it hits the session_start() command, and it can't do anything with the tmp directory. Can this be solved by simply creating a directory called that somewhere, or do I have to mess around with the settings again? (Or something else entirely).

Thanks.

 

[DRJ478]

You should create the folder that holds the session files. Make sure that the XP permissions are set so the user as which PHP/Apache runs has access privileges.
No need to go into any ini files.

 

[KempCGDR]

Where does the folder need to be? I tried in the php install directory, but that still didn't work.

 

[DRJ478]

The setting is in the php.ini and the parameter is:

session.save_path

There should be tha full path. You can change it to whatever you want, e.g.

session.save_path         ="C:\Program Files\PHP\tmp\"; argument passed to save_handler
                                    ; in the case of files, this is the
                                    ; path where data files are stored

 

[KempCGDR]

Thanks, figured it out about 5 secs before I got the reply email. Great minds think alike

Changed it to c:\LocalWebServ\tmp and all is well once again (for a few mins anyway, going to start enabling extensions now)