[RESOLVED]problems installing joomla (session save_path etc)

Vade · **Joined:** Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:22 pm **Posts:** 12

hey guys,

i am really wanting to get joomla installed on my dedicated server so i can start to try and learn it but i am having problems installing it, i have tried a fair few things but nothing has worked yet.

my setup is a dedicated server with windows 2003 and IIS6 installed.

when i upload the joomla directory to the server or put it direct by remoting into the server when i go to the install first thing i see on the screen is this:

Code:

Warning: session_start(): open(C:\PHP\sessiondata\sess_78ac9881b78726f2fb5c194667f74021, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in C:\Home\t\i\tigertest\www\libraries\joomla\session\session.php on line 412

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Home\t\i\tigertest\www\libraries\joomla\session\session.php:412) in C:\Home\t\i\tigertest\www\libraries\joomla\session\session.php on line 412

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at C:\Home\t\i\tigertest\www\libraries\joomla\session\session.php:412) in C:\Home\t\i\tigertest\www\libraries\joomla\session\session.php on line 412

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Home\t\i\tigertest\www\libraries\joomla\session\session.php:412) in C:\Home\t\i\tigertest\www\libraries\joomla\session\session.php on line 415

then under that we have the lanague selection ( which btw on mine is defaulted to the US which i thought it would be default UK :S) then when i click next i get:

Code:

Cookies do not appear to be enabled on your browser client. You will not be able to install the application with this feature disabled. Alternatively, there could also be a problem with the server's session.save_path. If this is the case, please consult your hosting provider if you don't know how to check or fix this yourself.

so i do some reading regarding session.save_path and see a few other people having problems and that it needs to be changed in the php.ini

so i log into my server and i have 2 different php.ini one is in c:\PHP and the other is C:\windows i am guess the one i need to edit is the one in c:\windows..

anyway so i find the session.save_path and un comment it. which does nothing ( after restarting iis ofc)

then i watched that video on how to install it (the one in another topic up there somewhere ^^)
so i then made a folder in my home directory called sessions and pointed the session.save_path to that folder in the php.ini.

still no joy, so i make a new folder in the same directory that joomla is installed into and change php.ini again still no joy:*(

i cant work it out here is a snippet of my php.ini

Code:

; Argument passed to save_handler.  In the case of files, this is the path
; where data files are stored. Note: Windows users have to change this 
; variable in order to use PHP's session functions.
; As of PHP 4.0.1, you can define the path as:
; where N is an integer.  Instead of storing all the session files in 
; /path, what this will do is use subdirectories N-levels deep, and 
; store the session data in those directories.  This is useful if you 
; or your OS have problems with lots of files in one directory, and is 
; a more efficient layout for servers that handle lots of sessions.
; NOTE 1: PHP will not create this directory structure automatically.
;         You can use the script in the ext/session dir for that purpose.
; NOTE 2: See the section on garbage collection below if you choose to
;         use subdirectories for session storage
session.save_path = C:\Home\t\i\tigertest\www\sessions

any help would be gratfully recieved

many thanks

Vade

k4lch · **Joined:** Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:58 am **Posts:** 2411

vade
check the folder attributes on your www directory they are possibly set to read only remove this I had to do that on my local machine

Vade · **Joined:** Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:22 pm **Posts:** 12

it wont actually let me remove read only..

when i right click properties unclick read only, it does it then after okaying it if i go back to properties its still read only...

any other ideals please

k4lch · **Joined:** Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:58 am **Posts:** 2411

check for iis_usrs has full control

Vade · **Joined:** Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:22 pm **Posts:** 12

hey,

if by iis_usr you mean the user bit to be the name of that part. um cant think of the words for it, but on mine i have
IIS, IIS_tiger, IIS_tigertest etc ( tiger and tigertest are accounts so indivudual sites on my dedicated box)

any setting all of that to full control hasnt made a difference at all

Vade · **Joined:** Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:22 pm **Posts:** 12

this bit:

Warning: session_start(): open(C:\PHP\sessiondata\sess_0471cd4ae3919b6636c8ae9abca41265, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in C:\Home\t\i\tigertest\www\libraries\joomla\session\session.php on line 412

bothers me because the is no such folder in the PHP folder? i dont understand why its going there to create the sessions...

in my php.ini i have put the save_path to go to a folder in the same directory that joomla is installed.

and to test it out i gave full control to everyone and it still didnt work

Vade · **Joined:** Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:22 pm **Posts:** 12

note to self,

do not try to update php on my server as it broke it

*fixed the server with old version of php..

this server sucks..

still got same problems

Vade · **Joined:** Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:22 pm **Posts:** 12

Just a note to say i have sorted it,

i tried to install the old version of joomla and it said the session.save_path was unwriteable and was trying to write to a folder called

c:\PHP\sessiondata

which didnt exist and is different to what is listed in the php.ini so anyway i created the folder and gave write permissions and now it works fine

cheers for the help that i received trying to fix this.

now to try and learn how to make it look like my existing site!

Big D · **Joined:** Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:03 pm **Posts:** 6

@ Vade

Thanks for thinking out load. It helped me out

muckhead · **Joined:** Wed May 06, 2009 3:42 pm **Posts:** 2

k4lch wrote:

vade
check the folder attributes on your www directory they are possibly set to read only remove this I had to do that on my local machine

For those of you who are newbies like me, this solution worked.

Thanks!!!

normanw18 · **Joined:** Tue May 05, 2009 2:20 pm **Posts:** 1

Hi

The discussion saved me lots of frustration. I installed xampp and then installed Joomla under c:\xampp\htdocs\xampp\ and I got the same problem described here. I added a sessiondata folder to c:\xampp\php and still Joomla work not complete. It was only when I created a sessiondata folder directly under c:\ did Joomla finish installing.

Thanks for info.

Sarivol · **Joined:** Fri Jun 05, 2009 5:31 pm **Posts:** 6

I just ran into the same problem. My host provider informed me that the session_save path default is /tmp in the main root directory. I changed the /tmp CHMOD to 777 and that did fixed the problem.

CopiousJ · **Joined:** Sun Nov 01, 2009 7:36 pm **Posts:** 26

muckhead wrote:

k4lch wrote:

vade
check the folder attributes on your www directory they are possibly set to read only remove this I had to do that on my local machine

For those of you who are newbies like me, this solution worked.

Thanks!!!

worked for me also -
wamp
vista

pitti · **Joined:** Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:14 am **Posts:** 2

En el archivo php.ini busca la sección "Fopen wrappers", alli encontraras una variable llamada session.save_path, solo verifica que la ruta a donde apunta exista.

Ejemplo:
session.save_path="C:\DOCUME~1\pit\CONFIG~1\Temp\php\upload"

Eso es todo. Good luck.

pitti · **Joined:** Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:14 am **Posts:** 2

is the same

validate exist the path,

upload_tmp_dir="C:\DOCUME~1\pit\CONFIG~1\Temp\php\session"

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