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+1  Q: 

PHP session_start fails

I'm trying to start the session in a header page in my webiste. But it seems there might be some sort of bug because it fails with the following error:

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(\xampp\tmp\sess_a7430aab4dd08d5fc0d511f781f41fe5, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in D:\Development\PHP\tt\Include\header.php on line 3

I'm using the default settings for xampp, everything is straight out of the box. For some reason its failing to open the file. however when i go to the directory with the session files in it, the files are there, they are just empty. Is this a bug? or am I doing something wrong?

php version 5.2.8

+10  A: 

This means that you don't have the correct permissions to either read or write the files in the temp directory.

If you on linux then do this

sudo chmod -R 755 \xampp\tmp //or should it be 775

On windows do this as an administrator

attrib -r -a C:\xampp\tmp /S
Unkwntech  2009-03-22 06:35:29
It was giving me a file not found error, so I added /D at the end and it went through. Unfortunately this didn't solve the problem
The.Anti.9  2009-03-22 13:05:58
If I right click on the folder and go to properties, read only is checked. But if I uncheck it, hit apply, and then right click and go back to properties, its checked again.
The.Anti.9  2009-03-22 13:17:37
Than you probably don't have the proper privelages to change the permissions.
Unkwntech  2009-03-22 20:13:38
I'm logged in as administrator. I solved the problem by changing the directory it uses in php.ini
The.Anti.9  2009-03-22 21:09:52

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