#16263 [Com]: session.start() create new empty session file and not resume existing session

ID: 16263 Comment by: morten at vianett dot no Reported By: kur at natur dot cuni dot cz Status: No Feedback Bug Type: Session related Operating System: ANY PHP Version: 4.3.0-dev New Comment: Same problem using v5.2.0 I get empty sess_ files in /tmp I have had this problem many times before. It seems that it works if its installed on a sunny day.. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-01-18 19:20:45] par at tor dot se Try to change this: session.save_path = "0;c:\program files\php\tmp" don't forget to use the 0; before the path. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-12-24 13:18:44] barts at time dot net dot my PHP 5.1.4 Windows NT SERVER 5.1 build 2600 Possible workarounds installed as mentioned in the thread. I also noticed that the session cookie is not updated when another pages is loaded that contains session_start(); This causes the session always to expire after its lifetime, where I expect the session to expire after the last session_start + lifetime. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-12-02 05:00:24] michaellai2006 at yahoo dot com Same thing for 5.1.16 I tried other people's suggestion, did not work for me neither. Please give a workaround. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-12-02 04:51:44] failmore at yahoo dot com Similar problem happend to me. The following is my configuration: Apache 2.2.3, PHP 5.1.16 I tried three different browsers, IE, FireFox, Maxthon same error happens. I host the website on my local machine, Win XP Home, therefore, I try to access the site using http://localhost/testsite add default_charset = "iso-8859-1"; in php.ini, did not work set setting cookie_domain=localhost did not work set session.use_trans_sid on did not work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-11-22 11:13:38] jclewley at netprospex dot com Try setting cookie_domain in php.ini to a period (.) followed by your domain. For example, ".google.com". The default typically tells PHP to use www.google.com which will cause problems if the user types google.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/16263 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=16263&edit=1