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[tim101011]

Hi,

 

I have recently created a website in PHP that allows people to advertise and view properties for sale. I got the software working perfectly on my computer at home. The next step was to put it on the internet by simply uploading the files onto a real web server.

 

To begin with I went for a cheap shared apache/linux server package using webfusion.co.uk, but had to upgrade to a VPS solution as the GD2 graphics library for PHP was not supported.

 

However, I have encountered 2 problems that I cannot work out the solution for with this new VPS package:

 

1.) Session variables are not being remembered between pages: I.e a session variable gets set to a certain value on one page, but then when I go to the next page it is not remembered/gets reset back to a null/empty value.

 

 

2.) The catch it security image on the signup page is generating an error where it says the font cannot be found/opened, but I have uploaded the font file (arial.ttf) to the specified location on the server.

 

 

 

Neither of things are a problem on my local build at home, and problem 1.) was not a problem on the cheaper shared server package that i started off using to begin with. My best guess is that I need to configure the session variable settings or permissiions somehow.

I can get the phpinfo page to show and I am sure this would be of help if I could decipher what it means!

 

The new package I am using uses a plesk control panel and I simply copied the files from my computer at home into the httpdocs folder on the live server.

 

Any help would be much appreciated. I am almost sure there is a blatantly obvious solution to these problems that I am manging to overlook somehow! Thankyou,

 

Tim