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My ISP for the sake of security has altered the cgi server, moved it over to Debian.  This throws up problems with Joomla in that it has permissions problems with /tmp

To solve this I had to edit a few files from where:

session_start()

Starts, to placing before it:

session_save_path("/files/home1/dgwebb/tmp");

Naturally having created the tmp folder in my root folder first.  I'm unsure if there is currently a short cut fix to alter the location of the /tmp directory, I could not find anything about it in the config file, but for the sake of ease, would it be possible to add a config where you can choose your own /tmp?

Hi,

You could try solving it with a .htaccess file in your root. Create a directory called tmp or whatever and give it all permissions 777. Then add something like this to your .htaccess file.

php_value session.save_path "/home/yourusername/tmp"

Maybe this will work for you. Searched on the forums, thats where I came accross this solution.

Coming to this thread with the same problem, I would like to know Lexxuk if he did apply this and if so, did it work.

I used Ultraedit32 to search all the files for session_start(), added the new line pointing sessions to my own tmp folder, which I'd made and chmod 777.  I believe it was in only 6-7 files.