[Obm] basic installation problem: session data

[Pierre Baudracco]

> > > <b>Warning</b>:  Failed to write session data (files). Please verify
> > > that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in
> > > <b>/usr/local/src/obm-0.7.5/obminclude/phplib/auth.inc</b> on line
> > > <b>0</b><br>
> > >
> > > What is wrong?
> > >
> > > apache 1.3.19
> > > mod_php 4.0.4
> > >
> > Seems strange... what's you're operating system?
> 
> SuSE 7.1 based Linux, some time I'll have to install a new system...
> upgrading SuSE is hard nowadays.
> 
> > Could you try to update you're php to php 4.3.x ? I have seen some php
> > bugs about sessions and php < 4.2.2
> 
> rpms from all SuSE 7.x should do, but I didn't find any, SuSE 7.x has
> only php 4.0.x. I looked at the rpm specs to build my own version, but
> this seems no fun.
> 
> > If you can't try to change the path where the sessions are stored in
> > you're php.ini...
> 
> /tmp should work, shouldn't it?

Yes /tmp should work !
has the apache user write access in /tmp ?

Btw, OBM uses some php functions that are only available since php 4.1.x
so php 4.2 or greater is now recommended for OBM

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