ID: 19022 Comment by: august24_70 at yahoo dot com Reported By: phpbugs at mx4k dot com Status: No Feedback Bug Type: Session related Operating System: linux (rh7.3), apache 1.3.26 PHP Version: 4.2.2 New Comment:
I was having the problem on OpenBSD 3.2, Apache 1.3.26, PHP 3.2.3 when running phpBB. I deleted all my cookies and logged back in again and the problem went. I don't use cookies for handling sessions, I pass it in the URL. ie session.use_trans_sid = 1 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-01-19 21:02:22] haccel at email dot com I also have been receiving this error since Jan 1st, 2004. Running on Linux operating system, Apache version 1.3.29 (Unix), PHP version 4.3.3 My error log is full of these errors: PHP Warning: Unknown(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/usr/home/asdwq1/sessions) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: session_start(): The session id contains invalid characters, valid characters are only a-z, A-Z and 0-9 in /usr/home/asdwq1/public_html/index.php on line 2 Line 2 of index.php = session_start(); Strange thing is it only happens some of the time. I use SID throughout so how can php create a session id and then say on the next page it is an invalid session id? I don't quite understand how it can be invalid when php creates this upon the call of the first session_start(). $_SESSION vars are only used and it occurs where-ever I move the session temp directory to. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-01-19 17:01:48] oliver at realnet dot org I was having the same problem, failed to write session data files, check your save path error. Worked fine in Netscape 7.1, but not in IE 6. I deleted my cookies, cleared history, deleted internet files, and rebooted. It worked like a charm after that. I don't know how that would affect it, but that's all I did... and like I say, it always worked, everytime in Netscape 7.1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-01-11 20:19:52] lennaert dot goris at ellips dot ws I am working on a PII 350 dev machine. php 4.3.4/apache 2.0.48 same problem used PEAR::Auth module and discoverd this bug. I can't seem to get rid of it. Tried all of the solutions presented on this site save from installing windows on my machine. I'm gonna try to recreate this bug on my laptop at work (winxp). See what happens there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-01-04 13:01:04] rajiv at rajivlodha dot cjb dot net continued from above - here is the change i made to php.ini [Session] ; Handler used to store/retrieve data. ;session.save_handler = files // old session.save_handler = %TMP% %TMP% is the default path for temporary storage on windows. thanks rajiv ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-01-04 12:58:29] rajiv at rajivlodha dot cjb dot net Hello guys, i was also having the same problem, on a PIII~933Mhz,Windows .NET Server, i changed my php.ini, and its now working fine. -- Original/Default -- [Session] ; Handler used to store/retrieve data. session.save_handler = Files ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/19022 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=19022&edit=1