session_write_close() failing

[Steve Brecher]

(As a *nix newbie) I think this is more of a system configuration problem
than a php language problem, but I'm not sure where else to go for help.
I'm trying to install phpMyAdmin on a linux shared hosting account. When I
run it (load phpMyAdmin's index.php with a browser), I get the following
three Warnings, and no other output:

Warning: session_write_close():
open(/tmp/php-ses/sess_0c21c95414d34dd67d6adf9ab3de88f6, O_RDWR) failed: No
such file or directory (2)

Warning: session_write_close(): Failed to write session data (files). Please
verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct
(/tmp/php-ses)

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output
started at [the session_write_close() call above])

session_write_close(); is the first statement that phpMyAdmin executes
after a couple of require_once's for .lib files. The third warning is
generated by...
// start output
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=' . $GLOBALS['charset']);

phpinfo() shows that session support is enabled, and session_save_path is
/tmp/php-ses

If I call the hosting provider's tech support, I get, "sorry, we don't help
with scripting problems." Is there something specific that I can say needs
changing in their configuration? ... or, any helpful ideas would be very
appreciated.

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[Jerry Stuckle]

Steve Brecher wrote:

(As a *nix newbie) I think this is more of a system configuration problem
than a php language problem, but I'm not sure where else to go for help.
I'm trying to install phpMyAdmin on a linux shared hosting account. When I
run it (load phpMyAdmin's index.php with a browser), I get the following
three Warnings, and no other output:

Warning: session_write_close():
open(/tmp/php-ses/sess_0c21c95414d34dd67d6adf9ab3de88f6, O_RDWR) failed: No
such file or directory (2)

Warning: session_write_close(): Failed to write session data (files). Please
verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct
(/tmp/php-ses)

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output
started at [the session_write_close() call above])

session_write_close(); is the first statement that phpMyAdmin executes
after a couple of require_once's for .lib files. The third warning is
generated by...
// start output
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=' . $GLOBALS['charset']);

phpinfo() shows that session support is enabled, and session_save_path is
/tmp/php-ses

If I call the hosting provider's tech support, I get, "sorry, we don't help
with scripting problems." Is there something specific that I can say needs
changing in their configuration? ... or, any helpful ideas would be very
appreciated.

So, does /tmp/php-ses exist, and does it have the correct permissions?
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[Steve Brecher]

I wrote:

(As a *nix newbie) I think this is more of a system configuration
problem than a php language problem, but I'm not sure where else to
go for help. I'm trying to install phpMyAdmin on a linux shared
hosting account. When I run it (load phpMyAdmin's index.php with a
browser), I get the following three Warnings, and no other output:

Warning: session_write_close():
open(/tmp/php-ses/sess_0c21c95414d34dd67d6adf9ab3de88f6, O_RDWR)
failed: No such file or directory (2)
[etc.]

Solution -- insert:
session_save_path ('/absolute/path/to/local/sessions/directory/');
at the start of phpMyAdmin's libraries/session.inc.php, where the string
argument is of course a "self-documenting dummy"(tm).

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[Steve Brecher]

I wrote:

I wrote:

(As a *nix newbie) I think this is more of a system configuration
problem than a php language problem, but I'm not sure where else to
go for help. I'm trying to install phpMyAdmin on a linux shared
hosting account. When I run it (load phpMyAdmin's index.php with a
browser), I get the following three Warnings, and no other output:

Warning: session_write_close():
open(/tmp/php-ses/sess_0c21c95414d34dd67d6adf9ab3de88f6, O_RDWR)
failed: No such file or directory (2)
[etc.]

Solution -- insert:
session_save_path ('/absolute/path/to/local/sessions/directory/');
at the start of phpMyAdmin's libraries/session.inc.php, where the
string argument is of course a "self-documenting dummy"(tm).

I forgot to mention some context. The key was finding this from the hosting
provider: "customers cannot use the default PHP session path in /tmp.
Instead, sessions will need to be saved in each account’s home directory."

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