jasonv

I was trying to address the weird problem I described in my previous post and I created a new "News" section with a new content category. When trying to save it, I got this in admin:

This shows up after I log-in and it's all I see. I can't get past this.

Any ideas? My site's dead in the water right now.

jasonv

Oh yeah, I was running 4.5 1.0.3 and just upgraded to 1.0.7, which didn't fix this.

<sigh>

visualdensity

Hmm... strange.. can you please paste your PHP info here?

It may be your session settings.

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jasonv

Fixed it. Permissions problem, apparently.

habbers

Can you please give a bit more information concerning just where the permission problem was. I am having the same problem and have tried upgrading my php version, made sure that the session_handler is set to files but nothing seems to get me past this error:

"Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: /tmp) in /var/www/communityweb/administrator/index.php on line 64"

when I try and log in to the Adminstrator section. I installed mambo on my laptop first without any problems and the permissions appear to be identical.

habbers

Hmmm not sure what happened but today I tried accessing the site this time using a virtual domain that pointed straight at the Mambo install and was able to log into the administrator without any problems. However when I try and login using mydomain.com/mambodir I am still getting the same problem. Anyone have any ideas of why this would happen?

Not really a problem now but I am just curious

cheers

visualdensity

Is your /tmp file set to the correct permission? It might be because PHP could not write to it.

THAT.. I seriously do not know.. may be the path settings. Are they all correct ?

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sybbie

This is a really common problem with new installations of Mambo when you're also setting up a server (Apache+PHP) at the same time.

Check the php conf files to find out where it's saving session data, then make sure the server user (apache on linux is usually 'nobody') has read-write permissions for that directory. New installations of PHP sometimes point to a temporary directory that's not permissioned correctly.

When Mambo saves data into session variables, a cookie is set userside, which identifies the data serialised in the session data stored in the temporary directory (often it's /tmp). If it can't create the file it'll crash out.

But I think there's a confounding variable here, due to the weirdness of being able to access it from the virtualhost but not the directory - I'll post when I have some clues!

futurahost

Hello

Strong workaround is:

Edit your php.ini this way:
auto_prepend_file = /usr/local/lib/php.ini.prepend

On your /usr/local/lib/php.ini.prepend file put this:
<? session_module_name("files"); ?>

Of course, you can place your prepended file wherever you like, as long as you state it correctly on your auto_prepend_file directive of php.ini

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Agustín Povarchik
FuturaHost.Com