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Hi there,

I am a newbie and just managed to get Joomla installed on my localhost which is XAMPP. When I go to the administrator login http://localhost/joomla15/administrator I have the following message in the header:

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/joomla15/configuration.php:68) in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/joomla15/libraries/joomla/session/session.php on line 423

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/joomla15/configuration.php:68) in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/joomla15/libraries/joomla/session/session.php on line 423

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/joomla15/configuration.php:68) in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/joomla15/libraries/joomla/session/session.php on line 426

Can anyone tell me what this is and what I need to do to remove it?

Thank you very much.

Onika

Hi Onika,

in the configuration.php file there are some spaces or line breaks after the ?> line.
Please remove those spaces and line breaks.

Olaf

Hi Olaf,

Thank you - that was easy

However, I still have a problem to login with my administrator user name and password. I did change them in the database, but still I get the message that the user name and password don't match.

Do you know why this is happening?

Thanks again.

Onika

Hi Olaf,

Please ignore my problem - login is finally sorted and I am in :-))

Thanks for your help again

Onika

I am having the same or similar issue. I'd like to resolve this so I don't keep getting the same errors by knowing what I can enter for the session variable.
I get:

Warning: session_start() [href='function.session-start'>function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent in /home1/(myusername)/public_html/libraries/joomla/session/session.php on line 423

I // line 423 out, but then it didn't recognize my login or password. I'm stumped as to what the session is referring to?

* Creates a session (or resumes the current one based on the state of the session)
*
* @access private
* @return boolean $result true on success
*/
function _start()
{
// start session if not startet
if( $this->_state == 'restart' ) {
session_id( $this->_createId() );
}

session_cache_limiter('none');
Line 423---> session_start();

// Send modified header for IE 6.0 Security Policy
header('P3P: CP="NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM NAV OUR OTRo STP IND DEM"');

return true;
}


/**
* Frees all session variables and destroys all data registered to a session
*

Do you get any error message before that one?
Did you check your configuration.php file if there are any spaces or line breaks before <?php or after ?>

Olaf

Config.php --- no none apparenty (see below) and no other errors

<?php
class JFrameworkConfig
{
var $dbtype = 'mysql';
etc, etc, etc
(items removed for brevity)
}

do you have this "?>" in the last line as well?

Olaf

I have the same problem when I do a clean install of 1.5.12. Configuration.php-dist and index.php checked for the <?php and ?>, does not help.

Bart


Update: Problem solved when moving from Firefox to IE8.

Please note that the configuration.php file needs to be checked not the Configuration.php-dist file.


In most cases this is not the solution for the problem.

Olaf

The problem depends on the formatting of the file...

For example i have just installed joomla on Aruba Server and then i have downloaded all file in xampp directory, reconfigured configuration.php with new host and all the right data...but nothing to do, it doesen't work.

And then I thought about what I had seen by opening the file with Notepad, a large cauldron of strange characters, squares and others......

With my favorit editor, Editpad Pro, no error and the file was understandable and so I worked with this hope that everything was working.

Reinstall whole Joomla it's a good solution if you don't want reformatting the configuration file.

But i tested this solution and it working now.

Bye Guys