I have just started learning php. I am working through sessions. I have copied example code from 'Beginning PHP, Apache, MySQL Web Development' - Chapter 2 exactly as it is in the book but i get the following errors:

Warning:session_start():open(/tmp\sess_919a8e5436ffe773095f79d46121525d, O_RDWR)failed:No such file or directory in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\test\movie1.php on line 2

Warning:session_start():Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\test\movie1.php:2)in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\test\movie1.php on line 2

Warning: Unknown():open(/tmp\sess_919a8e5436ffe773095f79d46121525d, O_RDWR)failed:No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0

Warning:Unknown():Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0.


I have created a sessiondata directory thus session.save_path
C:\Documents and Settings\All users\Documents\sessiondata

What do these errors mean? What do i have to do to get rid of them?

Please Help nav

It sounds like you modified the value of the session.save_path directive. Did you restart Apache after making those modifications?

Regards,
Rich

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I did restart Apache but the same errors occur.

When making changes to the session.save_path i made the changes in the 'php ini recommended' file and 'php configuration Settings' file.

Is it right to make the changes in both files? If not could this be the source of my problems?

Thanks Nav

Ah, there's the problem.

The ini files in the PHP directory don't do anything, these are predefined configurations. The php.ini file in use resides at C:\Windows\php.ini (or whatever your system root). That's where changes have to be made. :-)

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Rich

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