Re: session problems....

I'm not sure what sysadmins you are talking about, but /tmp is typically a world-writable directory. Also, there is no such "strict" Unix naming convention. The directory /tmp is always /tmp, so matter how "lenient" you want to be. There is simply a difference between relative paths and absolute paths. Chris Bruce Karstedt wrote:

I was referring to strict Unix directory naming conventions. /tmp is the equivalent of root/tmp and no sysadmin wants you writing to his /tmp directory. In fact you should not be allowed to write to /tmp. While I have not checked this, I have the feeling that PHP takes care of this for you. If you are creating a subdirectory, say for data, on your web site the Unix path may be something like /websites/yoursitename/htdocs/subdirectory. Since your default directory would be /websites/yoursitename/htdocs to get to /websites/yoursitename/htdocs/subdirectory you should use ./subdirectory which means "start in my default directory and go down one level to subdirectory. I'm sorry if this sounds critical, but I have found that many of the problem posted to this list are OS based, and I urge the members to learn both the operating system that they do their development on and the box where your site is hosted. The use of OS standard directories such as /tmp or /etc are bad form in Unix and make error log analysis difficult at best Bruce Karstedt President Technology Consulting Associates, Ltd. Tel: 847-735-9488 Fax: 847-735-9474 -----Original Message----- From: Julie Meloni [mailto:julie@thickbook.com] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 10:13 PM To: Bruce Karstedt Cc: 'php'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re[2]: [PHP] session problems.... BK> You should not be writing to /tmp that is a system directory. php.ini is a BK> file. If you need a "temporary" directory, use ./tmp that will be directory BK> in your web root directory. With all due respect, I think there's a reason that /tmp is the default session.save_path value in php.ini. /tmp is temp. It's where temporary things go. Saying "you shouldn't use that" is pretty much saying "Hey PHP Development Group, you've done this wrong for 2 years". If you don't want to write your session files to /tmp, then don't. But please don't say that it's wrong to do so. That's not the answer to the guy's particular problem. - Julie --> Julie Meloni --> julie@thickbook.com --> www.thickbook.com Find "Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 24 Hours" at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672323494/thickbookcom-20