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Script URL: http://www.internetradioclub.com/cgi-bin/ccount/
Version of script: 1.1
Version of PHP: "The current PHP version running on PowWeb's servers is PHP 4.3.10."
Hosting company: Powweb
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Great script, thank you!

After successfully logging into Admin with a password, and then upon trying to Add a link, I get "You are not authorized to view this page!"

Here are the error messages from the CGI log, in reverse order:

PHP Warning: Unknown(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/var/php_sessions) in Unknown on line 0

PHP Warning: Unknown(): open(/var/php_sessions/sess_59815ade4ae839846c2537ca4cdc1409, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0

PHP Warning: session_start(): open(/var/php_sessions/sess_59815ade4ae839846c2537ca4cdc1409, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in /hermes/web03/b401/pow.internetradi/htdocs/cgi-bin/ccount/index.php on line 40

I uploaded your test scripts and got the following results:

Session started successfully!
CLICK HERE FOR PAGE 2

and...

$_SESSION['test'] is set to: FALSE

Do you have any suggestions?
Cheers,
Bob

PS: A different topic, and just FYI, but I got everything to work just fine under XAMPP for Windows on my PC.

Hi,

You're having problems with sessions in general.

Contact your hosting company and ask them to properly configure PHP sessions. Changing session.save_path in php.ini from the default value /var/php_sessions to a valid session folder should fix everything.

Regards

Thank you very much for responding. I contacted Powweb and they showed me how I can change my own php.ini through their interface. Here is the default setting:
[Session]
; Handler used to store/retrieve data.
session.save_handler = files

; 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.
session.save_path = /var/php_sessions

Since I don't know anything about sessions or PHP, I'm afraid I don't know how to determine a "valid session folder." I only know the path to my htdocs directory:
Path to your Web document root: /home/users/web/zyx/pow.xyz/htdocs

Bob

You can try setting session.save_path to /tmp

Thank you, that got it working.

I have intermittent problems where I either get the Not Authorized screen, or I am taken back to the login menu after clicking the Continue link, but these are rare enough that I was able to add a couple dozen links today without too many such interruptions.