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Hi,

You need to ask your host to make the session_save_path writable.

If they wont you can try this.

Create a sub-folder called sessions in the same folder as the configuration.php file.

Find out the location of your Joomla folder by reading the $mosConfig_absolute_path entry from your configuration.php file.
Take the path from within the quotes on that line.
Put that value between the quotes on this line
session_save_path(''); 
and add a /sessions on the end of that entry - still inside the quotes.

It should look something like this  session_save_path('/path/to/joomla/sessions'); but your actual path will be different.
Place that line (with your path) with the other settings in configuration.php - on its own line.

Hope that helps.

Dean.

To follow up on this topic, so that even we newbies have a chance of understanding it...

I spend a lot of time before I figured this one out. You will have to continue installing joomla even if the install says that session save path is unwritable and then when you are all done with the install, joomla creates the "configuration.php" file which almost all of the above posts are referring to... mindbugling for a newbie... 

Would have saved me a lot of time if someone else had posted this!