Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Problem with Chat

[Dave Hall]

Brett Shadbolt <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a small problem when using chat.
> 
> I have phpgw 0.9.16 installed and running on a hosted environment. 
> My tmp directory is /tmp and session info is stored here. It 
> appears that session info for other users (by this I mean other 
> clients of the hosting company including myself) is being stored in 
> this directory.
> 
> When I launch chat it cannot read the other sessions started by 
> other users and the chat window reports multiple errors about not 
> being able to read or write sessions. Chat works but the right hand 
> side of the chat window is full of read/write errors and I cannot 
> see the box where I can select private chat mode or the users who 
> are on line.
> 
> Is there any way to just get chat to try and open sessions created 
> by a certain user - i.e. sessions for my virtual server which are 
> created by my system user name?
> 

I think it is a bad idea storing sessions in a shared directory on a
vhost.  Look at making a directory out of the apache docroot (ie ~/tmp)
and then create a .htaccess file which should contain:

php_value session.save_path = /path/to/new/tmp

btw what version of phpgw are you using?

Cheers

Dave

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