Error message displaying at the bottom of all pages

johnnymac · Post by **johnnymac** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:35 am

Warning: Unknown(): open(C:\PHP\sessiondata\sess_4506bb45a3a4413a68ac430147ae087d, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (C:\PHP\sessiondata) in Unknown on line 0

These lines are included on all of the pages. A bit of background. This install is brand new and done by my hosting provider aplus.net. They use a SQLite database on a windows machine. I attempted to install this myself, but they (aplus.net) have way to many security measures in place and restrictions on which/how files I can modify. Being the lazy person I am I simply modified one of the css files to include an a black background with black text. Problem solved I thought, but I am now noticing problems with entering in text for the blog. Any Ideas?

Thanks - Johnny

oh and
http://www.abusethe.net/cgi-bin/cblog/
that might be helpful lol.. just highlight the "Invisible" text at the very bottom of the page.

---Edit :: Problems with entering text means that I enter it via AdminSuite/NewEntry and nothing posts.

johnnymac · Post by **johnnymac** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:04 am

Ok.. Back to business.. I have searched high and low for an answer and the common idea is that:

a.

RandomGoogleSearch2 wrote:well, for the record. It wasn't a DNS problem. The tmp directory that the session variables were being written too has problems on my new server. I'm not sure what the problems are, but I set a new path for the tmp directory in my .htaccess file and now it works.

b.

RandomGoogleSearch7 wrote:They need to change the session_save.path directive in php.ini to a directory that actually exists, and give the apache user read/write permissions to it.

c.

sy9.org/forums wrote: (Dated Feb 2005 - Yeah I went back far)Did some investigation on BlueDomino and found that they require adding two lines to the top of any programs that use PHP sessions:

//Added these two lines:
session_save_path("/home/users/web/b10/blu.detnyre/cgi-bin/tmp");
session_start();

Please take into consideration that my Host (a+.net) has so graciously installed this for me. I now have to find a way to explain to them that they screwed up and they need to fix something because they won't give me access to the right stuff.

I have no clue what to tell them to fix.. And only a general idea of what is wrong.. Why does Serendipity have to be so cool! {Flings himself on ground}And I want it now{Bangs fists and feet}.

Thanks - Johnny

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:22 pm

Hi!

Just tell them this:

Hi Support!

I want to use a PHP application that depends on PHP sessions.
The way you configured PHP on my server does not allow write and read access to the "C:\PHP\sessiondata" directory.

To properly make me able to use a lot of PHP applications, please configure the webserver in a way that allows to utilize PHP sessions, by granting write privileges to the directory mentioned above, or by changing the php.ini variable for session.save_path to a usable directory.

Thanks,
Johnny

HTH,
Garvin

johnnymac · Post by **johnnymac** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:57 pm

They had the audacity to send me a message saying they had resolved the errors I was having. So I called tech support.. Its not really tech support.. Just an overrated secretary that I talked to. Any time i said a keyword like .htaccess or php he would bang away at his keyboard and give me some predetermined message basically saying "No, I'm right - you're wrong."

w/e I'm going to continue hounding them while I attempt to locate another service which will give me everything that I need.
A quick list..

What ever is needed for Serendipity - MySQL, access to read write settings, and w/e is needed for php!

Fast uploads and downloads.. The true benefit to aplus.net.. I could hit 6-7mB down and 400-500kb up..

High bandwidth and storage

Cheap (although I'm paying 19.99 right now because a+.net and myself are being noobs)

Soo.. Anyone have a brillant idea? Who hosts s9y.org? Ok im going to the whois database!

Thanks for the help guys..
- Johnny

d_cee · Post by **d_cee** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 8:04 pm

Hi Johnny

I use - and can recommend Servage hosting.

250 GB Web Space (250000 MB)
2100 GB Transfer
Unlimited FTP Accounts
FTP Access
1000 MySQL Databases (v4 & v5)
FTPS (Encrypted FTP)
PHP v4.4.1 & PHP v5.1.4
GD Support
etc. etc.

and a free domain name when you sign up. If you sign up from the link above I'll get an extra 25GB of web space added to my account - and so will you! - (275 GB total for you)

Cost is only £5.25 per month!

HTH

Dave

stm999999999 · Post by **stm999999999** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 8:12 pm

hey, what the hell wants a private person do with 250 GB!?

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 8:24 pm

Hi!

Hm, sounds like a really strange support there.

The PHP error message is pretty revealing, so they should really be able to solve that.

Sadly I'm based in Germany, so I only know about german providers...

Best regards,
Garvin

d_cee · Post by **d_cee** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:53 pm

stm999999999 wrote:hey, what the hell wants a private person do with 250 GB!?

Better to have too much than too little

I host some client sites there - and have lots of space to use for myself as you can host multi-domains

Dave

johnnymac · Post by **johnnymac** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:33 am

garvinhicking wrote: Sadly I'm based in Germany, so I only know about german providers...

I noticed the accent er i mean.. Thanks for all your help garvin. I am waiting on the latest support ticket to be resolved. We will see if they can get it right. I've also included an interesting screen shot for you.
http://abusethe.net/ss.jpg
If you look at the highlighted text you will see that you are associated with a+.net..

DC - Thanks for the recommendation. I am going to attempt to test the d/l upload speeds. If they are good then I will transfer my domain tonight (using your link of course)!