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Hello,
I've been banging my head against this familiar "failed to initialize storage module" thing.
Installation goes fine. All green. It starts with a blank blog OK. Clicking on "login" creates the failed to initialize storage module" error. I have searched this forum and tried creating a tmp folder and editing .htaccess accordingly. But to no avail. It is a web service. I have other sql/php things running on it OK. (I didn't write them, my programming days are over). Or maybe they are not?

Hi!

Check your server's phpinfo() output. It seems as if the core PHP module "session" was not compiled! Depending on your OS, you might need to install additional packages like php5-session or so...

(Usually this is a core package and required for PHP, you can optionally disable it, but that's really a bad idea *g*)

Thanks for that. Session support is enabled. See: http://www.oldschoolyard.co.nz/serendipity/php.php
But, session auto-start is off. Does that matter? I have forwarded you reply to the server support desk.
Thanks again.

Hi!

Can you check the directory "/home/ccat/tmp" that is listed for session storage, if this exists and is writable for the PHP webserver user (often www-data or nobody)?

Regards,
Garvin

The help disk sorted it:
" I also noticed that the website is running through our PHP5 server, so I have changed the domains DNS settings so that it will use our PHP5.3 server, which will hopefully allow the Serendipity software to run properly."
That did the trick. Thanks for your patience. Nice looking software!