Re: Empty session files

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Tom Duffey wrote: > As reported in bug #4360, I'm having problems where PHP4 RC1/2 is writing > empty session files. The session files show up, but are always 0 bytes. > > I made the problem go away by commenting out my Apache <VirtualHost> > sections. I'm using IP-based hosting. Then, I started removing the > comments from one vhost at a time, and eventually nailed it down to the > log paramaters within the virtual hosts. I'm piping log output to an > external program, Cronolog > (http://www.ford-mason.co.uk/resources/cronolog/), like so: > > TransferLog "|/usr/local/sbin/cronolog /home/domain/logs/access_log-%m-%Y" > > I do something like this for each virtual host, with an additional similar > CustomLog also piping to Cronolog. PHP4 sessions stop working when I have > more than two TransferLog or CustomLog's piping their ouput to Cronolog! > > I'm not sure if the problem is dependent upon piping the logs to Cronolog, > or just having any kind of logging in the VirtualHost section. I'll check > this out tomorrow. > > The machine is running FreeBSD 4.0, Apache 1.3.12+SSL, PHP4.0 > RC2. Nothing else appears to be broken by the aforementioned log > paramaters. Am I crazy or what the heck is happening here? Incidently, > bug #2765 is nearly identical to my bug report, and also mentions problems > occur only when x number of <VirtualHost> entries appear in his apache > configuration file. Ok, let's start nailing this down. Run the following command and let me know whether you still see the problem then. $ truss -o httpd.log bin/httpd -X If the problem (empty session files) persists, send me the httpd.log. Thanks. - Sascha