Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Problem with Chat

[Brett Shadbolt]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the prompt response.

I agree it is a bad idea having all sessions stored in the same directory, 
unfortunately I am only a client of the hosting company and have no control 
over their practices.

I am using the latest version of phpgw 0.9.16 updated regularly via CVS.

the current directory structure is as follows:

my root directory is /home/<user>
my webroot is /home/<user>/public_html
I have phpgroupware installed in /home/<user>/phpgroupware with a symlink in 
the webroot pointing to this.
I have a tmp directory at /home/<user>/tmp but all session data is stored in 
/tmp by default. When I first installed phpgw I set the tmp directory to 
/home/<user>/tmp but soon found that the session data wasn't being stored here 
and have reset it to /tmp

I am completely unfamiliar with .htaccess files but created a .htaccess file in 
my /home/<user>/phpgroupware directory as suggested. When I did this this I got 
an internal server error and could no longer access phpgw at all. I edited the 
existing .htaccess file in the webroot and could no longer access anything 
under the webroot.
The /home/<user>/tmp directory is public writeable so permissions is not the 
problem, any other ideas?

Cheers,

Brett

----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
From: Dave Hall <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>, <address@hidden>
Received: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:20:55 +0100
Subject: Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Problem with Chat

>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