i am reciving the same error as qouted in some other posts !!!

Warning: session_register(): open(/tmp\sess_da92d09d5a6a9b5e6511dc88b437c183, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in C:\WEB\apartments-direct\site\dev\test.php on line 5

so - change "session.save_path = tmp" > "session.save_path = C:\PHP\sessiondata"

i have done this!!! saved the file php.ini in c:/winnt/
i have stoped and started iis, restarted my pc, stoped and started iis and restarted my pc...

but it has failed to register the changes i made to php.ini !!!!!

even if i delete the file c:/winnt/php.ini - it still runs the same error( i stoped and started iis). it looks like it is not recognising c:/winnt/php.ini

Did you apply the proper write permissions to the directory?
http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11962

Did you verify that the directory at C:\PHP\sessiondata exists?

hth,
Rich

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yeah the folder is "shared" - the funny thing is if i delete the php.inifile from my system it still runs with the same error as above ????

Well, if you delete the php.ini file PHP is just going to fallback on all the default values that you saw in the file.

So let's troubleshoot step by step.

Make sure that php.ini has the right value then run a phpinfo() script. Look for the session.save_path value.

<?php
    phpinfo();
?>

This will spit out a detailed table of configuration settings.

If session.save_path still has a value of /tmp then the configuration change did not take effect and the problem is with your PHP install. If it does then there is a problem with the directory.

We can also rule in or out the php.ini file itself by doing an ini_set() on the configuration in the script itself. Include the following before the call to session_start().

<?php
    session_save_path("C:\PHP\sessiondata");

    session_start();
?>

If this works then that rules the directory out and places blame on the php.ini file itself.

If that does nothing -
Open up the directory in explorer, rerun the PHP script, if you see a file being created then there is possibly a problem with access privileges. If nothing happens then PHP doesn't have access to the directory at all. It needs read and write access to the directory. That's the 'Share this folder on the network' and 'Allow network users to change my files' settings in the sharing and security tab of the folder.

hth,
Rich


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i reinstalled php and made your changes to the .ini it works now. thanks mate

For future reference, you have your slashes wrong!

/tmp for linux, \\ for windows and in this case, /tmp\ for error :P

The slashes were reversed because the default value of session.save_path in php.ini is /tmp (suited for Linux users). Windows users have to specify the session.save_path directive explicity. His php.ini change from /tmp to C:\PHP\sessiondata wasn't getting picked up for some reason or another, hence the output of /tmp in the errors. At any rate he's already solved the problem.

Regards,
Rich

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I have the exact same problem and have follows all your instructions but to no avail. Any more suggestions please?

chris

I have a similar problem.

I have inherited a large PHP application running on a Linux server. I am trying to run the app locally under Windows XP/IIS. There are MANY instances of the following:

session_save_path('/usr/local/home/scoe/www/tmp');

I have this path on my Windows machine!

However, I get the following error:

PHP Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(/usr/local/home/scoe/www/tmp\sess_c5d67f60259e49b432ac86f27b9d8a93, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in ...

I have tried changing the default session.save_path setting in php.ini, but I don't want to have to comment out or change all those existing references to the save path.

Any ideas?