Session under Win32

Question :

How can I get rid of the errors generated by PHP when creating a session :

Warning: open(/tmp\sess_1243d01f1b06d133deb6b9894ed040ed, O_RDWR) failed: m (2) in C:\apache\htdocs\path\to_document\login.php on line 12

 

Answer :

PHP comes with a php.ini file that contains all configuration variables. The configuration is the default configuration that will suit most user...hem most UNIX user should I say because there is a small config variable that needs some change under Win32.

The session.save_path variable indicates where PHP should store files containing session information.

For UNIX user :

session.save_path = /tmp

For Win32 user :

session.save_path = C:\WINNT\TEMP (Or wherever your TEMP directory is)

If you don't know where can be found the php.ini files, just try this :

<?php
  echo phpinfo()
?>

System	Windows NT 5.1 build 2600
Build Date	Dec 30 2001
Server API	CGI
Virtual Directory Support	enabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path	C:\WINDOWS\php.ini
ZEND_DEBUG	disabled
Thread Safety	enabled

You should find where the php.ini files is.

Then a little further, you have the Session table :

session

Session Support

enabled

Directive	Local Value	Master Value
session.auto_start	Off	Off
session.cache_expire	180	180
session.cache_limiter	nocache	nocache
session.cookie_domain	no value	no value
session.cookie_lifetime	0	0
session.cookie_path	/	/
session.cookie_secure	Off	Off
session.entropy_file	no value	no value
session.entropy_length	0	0
session.gc_maxlifetime	1440	1440
session.gc_probability	1	1
session.name	PHPSESSID	PHPSESSID
session.referer_check	no value	no value
session.save_handler	files	files
session.save_path	C:\WINDOWS\TEMP	C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
session.serialize_handler	php	php
session.use_cookies	On	On