I need to do some testing for an IIS server (not my choice!)...

So I installed IIS on my WinXP Pro machine (all updates applied), got
php 5.1.1 installer (& zip for all the pear stuff), and got everything
running. (I used the installer, so PHP is running in CGI mode.)

I ran a bunch of different scripts without problems, but now I need to
test pages that use sessions. The following is the error I get:

Fatal error: session_start() [function.session-start]: Failed to
initialize storage module: user (path: C:\PHP\sessiondata) in
c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\file.php on line N

(line is "session_start();")

These files all worked under my apache installs, and I am assuming that
the problem lies with the permissions of the directory somehow. Does
anyone have experience with this kind of setup?

I am using an NTFS filesystem, and I thought that I could simply allow
the user running the web server to have write access, but that didn't
work. I even went in and set "Everyone" with full access to the c:\php
folder (after attempting the same on the sessiondata one) to no avail.

TIA!

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On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:19:44 -0600, Justin Koivisto <justin@koivi.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
>I need to do some testing for an IIS server (not my choice!)...
>
>So I installed IIS on my WinXP Pro machine (all updates applied), got
>php 5.1.1 installer (& zip for all the pear stuff), and got everything
>running. (I used the installer, so PHP is running in CGI mode.)
>
>I ran a bunch of different scripts without problems, but now I need to
>test pages that use sessions. The following is the error I get:
>
>Fatal error: session_start() [function.session-start]: Failed to
>initialize storage module: user (path: C:\PHP\sessiondata) in
>c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\file.php on line N
>
>(line is "session_start();")
>
>These files all worked under my apache installs, and I am assuming that
>the problem lies with the permissions of the directory somehow. Does
>anyone have experience with this kind of setup?
>
>I am using an NTFS filesystem, and I thought that I could simply allow
>the user running the web server to have write access, but that didn't
>work. I even went in and set "Everyone" with full access to the c:\php
>folder (after attempting the same on the sessiondata one) to no avail.[/color]

Perhaps http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32330

In particular the error seems to indicate you have a custom session save
handler registered, since it's saying "storage module: user" instead of the
default file handler?

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Andy Hassall wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Perhaps http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32330
>
> In particular the error seems to indicate you have a custom session save
> handler registered, since it's saying "storage module: user" instead of the
> default file handler?[/color]

I bet it is... Thanks!

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Justin Koivisto, ZCE - justin@koivi.com
http://koivi.com

Andy Hassall wrote:[color=blue]
> Perhaps http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32330
>
> In particular the error seems to indicate you have a custom session save
> handler registered, since it's saying "storage module: user" instead of the
> default file handler?[/color]

I guess it wasn't, but it did get me looking in the right place... Turns
out that the database object (MDB) that was used for the session storage
stuff had a malformed connection string.

Thanks for the help!

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Justin Koivisto, ZCE - justin@koivi.com
http://koivi.com