Where to create /tmp for sessions

[breag]

Hello
I just startet installation of Oscommerce (using oscdox docu) everything went fine. When i enter in to the shop i get the following error.....

Warning: open(/tmp/sess_3d5d57d172a02e0998eae11f7a824acb, O_RDWR) failed: m (2) in includes/functions/sessions.php on line 67

I found some informarmation here oon the board that the /tmp directory has to be created, but where?

any help would be appreciated
Thanks Peter Pichler

[neil]

Hi,
I had the same problem. Michael sent this:
Put it above your catalog dir, so if your apache web tree looks like this:
Code:

c:\webroot\
\apache
\php
\mysql
\websites
\catalog


Put the temp dir in c:\webroot . If that doesnt work, try putting it in C:\webroot\websites
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Hope this helps,
neil

[breag]

Hi Neil

Thanks for your help, i have to say that the webspace is hostet externally.
i did create /tmp at
\www.mywebspace\tmp
\www.mywebspae\subdir\tmp
\www.mywebspace\subdir\os_commerce\tmp

No way, still the same error message.

Again many thanks for your reply.
Peter

[michael_s]

Put the /tmp dir ABOVE your public_html dir or www dir.

See this example:

/home
       /tmp
       /public_html
                      /catalog

Right now, with your example you have:

/home       
       /public_html
                      /tmp
                      /catalog

That should fix it...

[breag]

Thank's will try it as soon as possible.

best regards Peter

[breag]

Hi

I think i got it, actually the /tmp/ directory is defined in the PHP.INI (session.save_path) i talked to our host and the y don't allow to access this directory.
Is there any possibility to specify in the scripts an other /tmp/ directory?

Many thanks Peter

[michael_s]

This is defined in application_top.php. Try changing the path defined in this line (roughly 166):

define('PHP_SESSION_SAVE_PATH', '/tmp');

I believe you can change it to whatever dir you like, just make sure the path is correct. You may have do disable the

if

statement for it to work.

Thanks, will check it out.....
best regards Peter

[breag]

Hi, i did the changes in application_top.php....
still the same error....
Warning: Failed to write session data. Please check that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0

I changed both application_top.php \admin\include\ as well as catalog\include with the following

if (!function_exists('session_start')) {
define('PHP_SESSION_NAME', 'sID');
define('PHP_SESSION_SAVE_PATH', '/www.hostname.com/subdir/os_commerce/tmp');

if i disable the if function i get a parse error??

As i am not really a PHP crack it is not so easy to understand why it is looking still for the /tmp and not for /www.hostname.com/subdir/os_commerce/tmp

Thanks and best regards Peter

[michael_s]

define('PHP_SESSION_SAVE_PATH', '/www.hostname.com/subdir/os_commerce/tmp');

This is incorrect. It should not be a URL but a path:

define('PHP_SESSION_SAVE_PATH', '/subdir/os_commerce/tmp');