Re: php session GC error


"Shawn McKenzie" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Frank Stanovcak wrote:
"Nathan Rixham" <nrixham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Frank Stanovcak wrote:
"Shawn McKenzie" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Frank Stanovcak wrote:
I'm trying to make sure that my sessions are timed out by my server.
I'm running it on winxp, and my php.ini contains the following

session.gc_probability = 1
session.gc_divisor = 1

; After this number of seconds, stored data will be seen as 'garbage'
and
; cleaned up by the garbage collection process.
session.gc_maxlifetime = 30

I am now getting this error

PHP Notice: session_start() [function.session-start]:
ps_files_cleanup_dir:
opendir(C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\) failed: No such file or directory (2) in
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Envelope1\edit\EditMain.php on line 2

What do I have to do to make this work right?

Frank


Does C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ exist?

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Thanks!
-Shawn
http://www.spidean.com
Yes it does, well C:\Windows\Temp does, but win isn't case
sensitive...does it matter to PHP?
try changing it to the correct case then come back and tell us if case
matters? :)
ok...let me try it like this.

how do I explicitly tell PHP in the ini what directory to use for session
storage and cleanup. I've been googling for about an hour now, and am
just
getting more frustrated. :(

The server is a single purpose server, and it will remain that way, so I
don't want to have to code ini settings into each page. :)

Frank


Should be session.save_path, but check phpinfo() to see what it's using.
Should be the path in the error.

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Thanks!
-Shawn
http://www.spidean.com

So if my ini looks like the following I should be able to get rid of any
session data after a preset timelimit?

session.save_path = "C:\temp"

; Whether to use cookies.
session.use_cookies = 1

;session.cookie_secure =

; This option enables administrators to make their users invulnerable to
; attacks which involve passing session ids in URLs; defaults to 0.
; session.use_only_cookies = 1

; Name of the session (used as cookie name).
session.name = PHPSESSID

; Initialize session on request startup.
session.auto_start = 0

; Lifetime in seconds of cookie or, if 0, until browser is restarted.
session.cookie_lifetime = 0

; The path for which the cookie is valid.
session.cookie_path = /

; The domain for which the cookie is valid.
session.cookie_domain =

; Whether or not to add the httpOnly flag to the cookie, which makes it
inaccessible to browser scripting languages such as JavaScript.
session.cookie_httponly =

; Handler used to serialize data. php is the standard serializer of PHP.
session.serialize_handler = php

; Define the probability that the 'garbage collection' process is started
; on every session initialization.
; The probability is calculated by using gc_probability/gc_divisor,
; e.g. 1/100 means there is a 1% chance that the GC process starts
; on each request.

session.gc_probability = 1
session.gc_divisor = 1

; After this number of seconds, stored data will be seen as 'garbage' and
; cleaned up by the garbage collection process.
session.gc_maxlifetime = 30


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