Thomas Varghese Thomas Varghese Thomas Varghese

Hi thomas,

I have install without problem the componet ccBoard 0.0.2 and plugin search 0.2.1 on Joomla 1.5.8

But the system, when I press the button "NewTopic" generate a follow error:

Fatal error: session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: /tmp_r) in /membri/sugarcollection/components/com_ccboard/views/post/view.html.php on line 94

The Url of my site il http://sugarcollection.altervista.org/

Hi,

This means that, you dont have permission to write to the session save path folder. Either you have to modify php.ini or to edit the .htaccess files. Joomla forum has got answers for this issue.

Check the Joomla Forum here

Hope this helps.

Thanks

Thomas

Hi Thomas, thanks for reply,

I have read the post on Joomla Forum,

but all the articles say to follow this 2 instrunctions:

-  modify php.ini, or

-  modify the root .htaccess adding the code line 'php_value session.save_path "/tmp" ' or ' session.save_path= "/tmp" '

I have tried only the second one in both versions. The first option it's not possible because my site is in remote hosting and I can't access the php directory.

Now, in .htaccess is present the code ' php_value session.save_path "/tmp" ', but the error remains and continue to signal the directory '/tmp_r' that doesn't exist on web server.

I have tryed to create the directory '/tmp_r' with permission chmod 777, and modify the .htaccess with the code line 'php_value session.save_path "/tmp_r" ', but doesn't work.

Can you explain why the system look for the directory '/tmp_r' ???

Thanks. 

Hi,

Create a file called p.php in the root folder of your site. It should contain the following code.

<?php

    phpinfo();

?>

After that access this p.php from your site using any browser. it will display lot of things, in that there is an area for session. Now try your setting until you get the desired setting.

Note: Please delete this file once you finished your job. Keeping this file will be a security risk for your site.

Now come back to the problem. I dont think you can get access to /tmp folder. Coz it is normally blocked by your server administrator. Actually what you have seen your root is actually is not the original root. It is something like /usr/xyz/home/../.. etc. So first thing you have to do is to find your original path to your "logical root" directory. You may get this information from your site administrators. 

Or put this little piece of code in your php file

echo getcwd() . "\n";

now you have got your current root directory path. Now create a folder tmp and chmod to 777. Now you can modify your .htaccess file with the real path + your temp directory path.

Hope this helps.

Thanks

Thomas

Hi thomas,

I have try your solution, but not work.

It possible that you module use the temporay directory written in the control panel of joomla?

Thanks for your replay.