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I sucessfully installed Serendipity on my Windows 2003 server with Plesk after some fighting about the .htaccess file. Everything finished however with green across the board.

However, I login to the admin panel, then as soon as I click on ANYTHING on the left hand side, it brings me back to the login page. I have checked the php session save directory and it is valid "C:\SWSoft\Plesk\tmp". What else am i missing?

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I always thought the save path wasn't allowed to use backslashes, but I'm not familiar enough with the Windows implementation to speak authoritatively.

Yes i have cookies enabled, i have tryed on multiple computers with multiple different browsers. Still does the same thing.

Hi!

The session save path must use forward slashes, like C:/blabla/SWSoft or PHP can often not write session files properly.

Regards,
Garvin

I edited the PHP.ini file to try different temp folders such as the following:
C:/temp
C:/Windows/temp
C:/SWSoft/Plesk/tmp

I even gave full control of IIS users to those folders to try to write the session files and it still kicks me back to the login page. I tryed different times with the different folders and even gave "Everyone" permission to write to the C:/temp folder, and it still does not work.

phpinfo is correctly showing the changes to the session.save path as well. It figured when I try to set something up nothing works right.

Does it actually write any session files to the session save path? I'm not familiar with IIS, so I'm shooting in the dark here. I can definitely say that this is a session problem. Either they're not being stored on the server, not being stored on the client, or not being loaded (a task which takes cooperation from both).

I am logged into the server with RDC, and i am looking at the folder while I am trying to login and nothing is coming up. Modified date does not reflect times either.

This is the first PHP script I have had a problem with on this server, Joomla was a bit more complex but it installed fine and that uses sessions as well.