[Pmwiki-users] Upload Problem

[Steven Leite]

> I'm suspect that your PHP server isn't set up to handle
> sessions properly.  Try an ?action=phpinfo with $EnableDiag=1; set
> and check the value of session.save_path.  Is it a writable
> directory?
>
> Pm

session.save_path is set to /tmp.

Since we're examining session values, it was no bother to copy-past the 
output here, just incase you want to examine some other variables.

      Directive Local Value Master Value
      session.auto_start Off Off
      session.bug_compat_42 On On
      session.bug_compat_warn On On
      session.cache_expire 180 180
      session.cache_limiter nocache nocache
      session.cookie_domain <snipped out> no value
      session.cookie_lifetime 0 0
      session.cookie_path / /
      session.cookie_secure Off Off
      session.entropy_file no value no value
      session.entropy_length 0 0
      session.gc_divisor 100 100
      session.gc_maxlifetime 1440 1440
      session.gc_probability 1 1
      session.name PHPSESSID PHPSESSID
      session.referer_check no value no value
      session.save_handler files files
      session.save_path /tmp /tmp
      session.serialize_handler php php
      session.use_cookies On On
      session.use_only_cookies Off Off
      session.use_trans_sid On On




On Thursday, January 13, 2005 10:45 AM [GMT+1=CET],
Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:13:03AM -0800, Steven Leite wrote:
>>> Is it just upload passwords that aren't working or is it also
>>> affecting edit, attr, etc. passwords?
>> I tried to set the attributes on a page by typing
>> Main/HomePage?action=attr.
>> [...]
>> The same problem occurs.  It doesn't recognize the password.
>> Does that get us any closer to solving this mystery?
>
> Yes, it tells us that the problem is with passwords in general
> and not specific to uploads.
>
>> I also tried John's suggestion of  putting
>> ini_set('session.cookie_domain','.domain');
>> in my config.php file, but that didn't work either.
>
> I'm going to suspect that your PHP server isn't set up to handle
> sessions properly.  Try an ?action=phpinfo with $EnableDiag=1; set
> and check the value of session.save_path.  Is it a writable
> directory?
>
> Pm