PHP DB - Re: [PHP-DB] IIS, PHP, and session data

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Re: [PHP-DB] IIS, PHP, and session data

Simon Rees

2005-01-25, 8:56 pm

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 20:20, Perry, Matthew (Fire Marshal's Office)=20
wrote:
> I am having trouble with my session data on Microsoft IIS.
>
> Here is a little background of the problem:
>
> 1) I am not personally in control of our web server. Our IT
> department manages it. =20

oh dear! ;-)=20

> They have IIS running on their sever and use MS=20
> SQL Server, but they have allowed me to use PHP instead of ASP.
>
> 2) I have apache running on a local web server in our office (not
> the IT department). It accesses the SQL Server database remotely. I

I can't comment on the use of register_globals or session_register as I=20
always use the $_SESSION array but I do use PHP on IIS...
Something that you might like to check is that the directory specified by:

session.save_path

in the IIS server's php.ini is a directory writable by the user that IIS=20
masquerades. The default value for this is:

c:\php\sessiondata

which if your sy

min installed php as Administrator will not be writable=
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by the IIS user (normally IUSR_<hostname> ).

Either get the sy

min to specify (& create) another dir that is writable=
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by IIS or change the permissions on c:\php\sessiondata

Assuming you're running apache on a Linux (and probably other un*x)=20
distribution you will find that the session.save_path variable is set=20
to /tmp which is usually world writable.

I think if you posted the exact error message it would tell me if this was=
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happening to you or not...

hth, Simon

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