You sure the web server process has write access to the /tmp dir?

Many shoes,

Jamez/SiliconFuRy

thanks for your reply,
I managed to solve the problem ;).
The problem was that I had installed the opensource webshop osCommerce, and what I did't know was that the \temp value was stored the mysql database, and the value in php.ini wasn't used. Anyway I think that was the reason to the problem :-)

/asbjoern

Common fault is

In Apache2\conf (or your directory)edit httpd.conf file looking for AllowOverride, the default of this is none, change it to All.

The default is 'very restircitive", I am not sure of the security implications, perhaps someone more with a few more smarts can answer...anyway this is the full section that comes with Apache

#
# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its subdirectories).
#
# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
# features.
#
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Hope it helps...

rich you really are star!!

I installed php couple of days back and kept getting the error.
This forum helped me resolved the permissions issue.
I wonder why php won't inform you about setting permissions to sessions directory?
It should set the permissions on installing
or is it documented some place in bold and I just glossed over it :-)?

btw, reboot is not required, I use IIS and just had to restart IIS.