session.save_path problem [resolved]

[marccouture]

My hoster turns off this option, as it is seen as a potential security issue.  Is there a workaround to making CMSMS work without this option turned on?

Thanks...

[cyberman]

Have you tried to switch on with php_flag on .htaccess?

[marccouture]

Have you tried to switch on with php_flag on .htaccess?

No, can you describe exactly what I need to do to test this?

Thanks for the quick reply!


EDIT: after a few Google searches, I tried creating a .htaccess file with the following info in the file, but I get a HTTP 500 server error (I put this file at the root of my CMS, is the path ok?):

php_value session.save_path "/cmsmadesimple/"
php_flag register_globals off

[cyberman]

No, can you describe exactly what I need to do to test this?

Only sometimes (not every times) it is possible to overwrite providers settings  .

but I get a HTTP 500 server error

Means internal server error - reasons can be a "wrong" server config or a mistake in writing in .htaccess.

is the path ok?):

Yes it should ...

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php_value session.save_path "/cmsmadesimple/"
php_flag register_globals off

The path means the temp folder for server, not for CMSms. By default it should be

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php_value session.save_path "temp"

[Elijah Lofgren]

My hoster turns off this option, as it is seen as a potential security issue.  Is there a workaround to making CMSMS work without this option turned on?

Thanks...

This may work:

Open include.php and add the following lines to the top of it after the <?php

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$dirname = dirname(__FILE__);
session_save_path($dirname.'/tmp/cache');

The top of the file should then look like this:

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<?php
$dirname = dirname(__FILE__);
session_save_path($dirname.'/tmp/cache');

#CMS - CMS Made Simple

Let us know if this works and we may be able to add a workaround like this for people that run into the same problem that you have.

[calguy1000]

a) this could go into the config.php (to make upgrading a bit easier).

and

b) make it an @session_save_path($dirname.'/tmp/cache');

just incase your host is gonna disagree with the command, at least you won't get any gnarly errors.

[mechatech]

a) this could go into the config.php (to make upgrading a bit easier).

Just ran into the problem today.
How would this go into the config.php? Anyone have an example of this

Thanks a lot!

[Owens]

Let us know if this works and we may be able to add a workaround like this for people that run into the same problem that you have.

This worked for me... just upgraded to PHP5, and a couple of things broke, but this fixed the session problems. Thanks.