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.

[Anonymous]

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');