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Hello

Today I’ve tried to install the latest snapshot on my Mac OS X based server running PHP5 5.0.2 on 4D WebSTAR. Unfortunately I’m unable to get behind the index page. The server logs the following error...

PHP Fatal error: session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: ) in /Volumes/PLADDE/WEBSTAR/BLOG/index.php on line 10

Running S9Y v. 0.7 with 4D WebSTAR and PHP4 4.3.9 works very well. But none of the tested versions (0.7 and latest snapshot) will work with PHP5.

Could you please help us?

Thanks a lot for your patience

That's not a matter of s9y or PHP5, but of a wrongly configured PHP. Please edit your php.ini and see if session.save_path is set correctly!

Good luck,
Garvin

Session path ist set to /tmp as it is for PHP4!

If it were a misconfigured php.ini, it should run with PHP 4.3.9 as your version 0.7 does, shouldn’t it?

Now I’m a registered member

I double-checked all PHP (4 & 5) related session settings and now they aren’t my problem anymore. Now I’m having trouble continuing ’cause the server is logging the following error ...

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function serendipity_userLoggedIn() in /Volumes/PLADDE/WEBSTAR/BLOG/sv9/serendipity_admin.php on line 42

It seems some includes doesn’t work

btw.: Maybe it’s useful to know I’ve disabled the "iframe" test routine.

That function sounds like you don't have extracted the right directory scheme? Do you have an 'include' subdirectory with several more subdirectories?

The serendipity_userLoggedIn function is declared in include/functions.inc.php...

Regards,
Garvin.

Yes, I have the "include" directory and all files needed seem to be in there. The file "functions.inc.php" is present.

I’ve tried to hard-link this file by hacking your "serendipity_config.inc.php" as I did with "functions_config.inc.php", because of the "serendipity_getTemplateFile" function that couldn’t be found otherwise, but it didn’t help

It seems to be a general linking problem.

That is really strange, I could only imagine it to be a MacOS problem. Can you debug if the 'functions.inc.php' is included? Trace the steps that serendipity_config.inc.php does and see if some directories (S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH, ...) are set wrong.

Maybe you even have $serendipity['serendipityPath'] set in a wrong way in your Serendipity configuration?

Regards,
Garvin

garvinhicking wrote:That is really strange, I could only imagine it to be a MacOS problem.

I don’t think so, because everything went fine until s9y v. 0.8

garvinhicking wrote:Can you debug if the 'functions.inc.php' is included? Trace the steps that serendipity_config.inc.php does and see if some directories (S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH, ...) are set wrong.

I will try to debug this!

garvinhicking wrote:Maybe you even have $serendipity['serendipityPath'] set in a wrong way in your Serendipity configuration?

All errors occur while trying to install v0.8 for the first time. No settings done at all!

Ah, okay - it already happens in installation. I'll also try to debug it...report back if you find something, please

(or drop in to #s9y on IRC-freenode

Regards,
Garvin.

I will do my very best, Miss Sophie

I’ve tried to debug your scripts and it seems in file serendipity_config.inc.php on line 141

include_once(S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH . 'include/functions.inc.php');

is never reached. The script seems to exit this file before calling the needed include() or it dies somewhere I cannot figure out.

Thanks a lot, I've found out that due to some changes the snapshot was really not installable.

I have moved around the functions into the right places, but the changes are too numerous to mention here. Please fetch the snapshot on http://www.s9y.info/ generated a few minutes ago, it should work there!

The lastest snapshot (s9y_200411301439) is already up and running

Thanks a lot!