session_start() barks out "open_basedir restriction in effect"

[paulferree]

I've googled this until my brain turned to mush.

 

This is the error im getting when I call the session_start() function.

 

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(C:\Windows\TEMP\) is not within the allowed path(s):

 

I'm on IIS7......

 

Thanks for the help!!! Im braindead now.

 

Paul

[RussellReal]

change the session directory

with

session_save_path

 

but remember to put that above every script that will use sessions, or you could set teh save path directly in the php.ini which is session.save_path you set that to somewhere where you DO have access to..

 

u could do that until someone here like daniel comes and gives you a better way, or solution without having to change the path, but I'm more than sure eventually you'll be editing some sort of configuration file

[paulferree]

Thanks! I'll give this a shot and see what happens...  FYI I also get this same error when using file functions.  Is that indicative of anything in particular?

 

 

[paulferree]

Either something else is wrong or Im not doing this right...

 

above my session start I pointed to a specific folder I created on the site

save_session_path('/session_save/');

 

and it gave me the same error.

 

also, when I run php_info for the value open_basedir it shows the server path to this website.  I've seen other servers that just show this as  "no value".  In the php.ini file the open_basedir line is commented out.

 

Thanks!

Paul

[RussellReal]

save_session_path('session_save');

 

try that, and, maybe.. try this: ini_set('open_basedir','/');

 

or set your php.ini value for open_basedir (if you have access to it) to '/' or '/www/'

[paulferree]

Well...that worked! It made me realize that for some reason I had problems with a relative path.  So when I put in the absolute server path it worked fine.

 

Thank you so much Russell for this fix.  Still frustrating as to why it's not working "out of the box".

 

Paul

[RussellReal]

not sure.. maybe when you installed whatever program installed php, it so you could do the least amount of damage to your own server lol

[paulferree]

This issue has reared its head again.

 

What in the php.ini / overall configuration do I need to check in order to make this function correctly?

 

open_basedir is commented out in the php.ini file and safe mode is not enabled.

 

Thanks!

[paulferree]

Looks like I found the problem, session.save_path wasn't set.  Set it, now all seems to be well.