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Just wondering if you ever found a solution to this. About to convince the client to move away from GoDaddy. I could have had the system installed, modules set up and templates built in the time I've been trying to debug this.

Set the path in php.ini to tmp/cache

You may need to write it as the full document root.

Depending on the website and what is going on, you may NOT want to set the session save path to tmp/cache.

Why: All users session information will be stored there.

Any time you clear the cache you would essentially be killing all of your users sessions. This would probably NOT be a good thing to do if you're working on a live e-commerce site for example.

Instead you should create another directory that the web server can write to, and set the session save path there.

i.e: mkdir tmp/sessions
chmod 777 tmp/sessions {* may not be necessary *}
php_value session.save_path "/path/to/my/website/tmp/cache" {* syntax not checked *}

Thanks for the suggestions. I created a directory /tmp/sessions/ with 777 permissions. I created a php5.ini file that contains

session.save_path = "/cms/tmp/sessions/"

Now I get a different but similar set of errors.

Warning: Unknown: open(/cms/tmp/sessions//sess_ced4011a40a5a3954dba7f0c1cc6cd1f, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/cms/tmp/sessions/) in Unknown on line 0

It seems the GoDaddy hosting account makes your home directory /, so there is no server path that I can find. Any other ideas?

Thank you!

ask them what the server path is.

Thanks, applejack. I found it in the GD account manager. Installation complete. And thanks, Calguy, for all of your good deeds.