Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Session handling problem

[Dave Hall]

Brett Shadbolt <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am still trying to find a solution to a problem which emerged 
> with the chat app.
> 
> I found out our hosting service runs PHP as CGI and that I have to 
> copy php.ini to my webroot and then change the session.save_path 
> setting in the saved file for it to recognise a tmp deirectory 
> other than /tmp.
> 
> Apparently if PHP is run as CGI rather than as a module, inserting 
> a php call in .htaccess causes a code 500 server error, so it is 
> necessary to do the above.
> 
> This background is just for anyone else who might run into the same 
> problem.
> I have set up /home/<user>/tmp and have changed the 
> session.save_path to /home/<user>/tmp in php.ini and have also 
> changed the path using the phpgw setup program to the same. I have 
> verified that php is using my new php.ini file by viewing a simple 
> php script consisting of phpinfo() - it shows that the php.ini file 
> it is using is the one I created and also shows the tmp path being 
> the new path. Session data is now being created in /home/<user>/tmp 
> - I have verified this by logging into phpgw and then checking the 
> directory for existence of session data.
> 
> However, once logged in I cannot access anything other than the 
> main page - as soon as I click on any app I get logged out and 
> returned to the login screen where the message "your session could 
> not be verified" comes up in red.
> 
> Any suggestions? Are there any other references in phpgw to the tmp 
> path which I might need to change?
> 

Hmmmm.  This box is hosted right?  Do you have verify ip = on in
admin->site config?  If so try turning it off.  Many ISPs use
transparent proxies, which causes this problem :(

Something else to check - are there any sess_* files in the new temp dir?

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