Bug #76724 [Ver]: Unable to start session when using PHP CGI

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76724&edit=1 ID: 76724 User updated by: geral at braldesign dot com Reported by: geral at braldesign dot com Summary: Unable to start session when using PHP CGI Status: Verified Type: Bug Package: Session related Operating System: CLOUDLINUX 6.10 standard PHP Version: 7.2.8 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: The /usr/bin/php is the cgi version : # /usr/bin/php -v PHP 7.2.8 (cgi-fcgi) (built: Jul 19 2018 09:57:11) Apparently this is setup like this as deployed by CloudLinux service, should I contact them about this? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-08-09 09:56:25] spam2 at rhsoft dot net if you provider is using cgi-fcgi instead of /usr/bin/php for cronjobs he is a fool becaus ethat breaks the usual way such code looks like if(PHP_SAPI !== 'cli') { session_start(); } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-08-09 09:54:18] geral at braldesign dot com I was retesting everything, so my server provider uses cgi-fcgi to execute cronjobs, to test this I just echo php_sapi_name() on an empty script executed by cronjob. I'm only using sessions because the backoffice uses it, i'm only using it as global variables. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-08-09 09:30:29] requinix@php.net php-cli should be used for cronjobs, yes, but this bug report is about php-cgi. They are not the same. Either you are using php-cli and this bug is irrelevant, or you are using php-cgi and you should not be. And you know sessions don't really work from the command line, right? You would have to force a particular session ID, new or existing, for sessions to work across multiple runs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-08-09 09:28:27] spam2 at rhsoft dot net a proper software runtime skips session_start() when not running within a webserver environment, these are a few lines of PHP code and be it only to prevent spit session files to disk for no gain ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-08-09 09:24:14] geral at braldesign dot com I'm using the php-cli only because it is the default used by cron jobs and i'm using session on it just because the script uses session to store data for the execution. If this behavior is intended I can only work around it. Thanks for the explanation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76724 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76724&edit=1