Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 12/17/19 11:55

Robert wrote:
> Hey Jerry,
>
> In PHP v4.x.x, you need to use session_start() -- But (as it goes) in
> PHP 5.x.x you don't need to. I'm not sure if I can back that up because
> I use PHP 4 myself.
>

Actually, unless you have the session auto-started in your php.ini, you
need to call session-start() in PHP 5, also. I'm running 3 servers on
PHP 5 right now.

> If thats not the answer, then yes, contact your Hosting provider for
> details on (maybe) php.ini -- for the session handlers (such as
> session.save_path, session.use_cookies, session.use_only_cookies, etc)
> -- There could be a misconfiguration. But it's always nice to check it
> out :)
>
> Hope this helps, -Rob
>

Definitely. When I have a problem like this which seems to be host
related, the first people I talk to is the hosting company. If I'm
having the problem, chances are others have, also. And it could be a
misconfiguration - or even a restriction in the way they have things set up.

> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>>stclaus@tiscalinet.it wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>I'm currently experiencing a problem using sessions under php 4.4.2. I
>>>store variables and objects inside session variables, and all works
>>>well under php 5.x, but when I upload those pages to my hosting
>>>(tiscali italia business) the whole site and session variables seem to
>>>work at the beginning, but after a variable number of request
>>>(sometimes the second, sometimes the fifteenth page requested) all the
>>>site get stuck, every request from the site domain 'hangs up' from this
>>>moment.
>>>
>>>But the site isn't really stuck, any request to a page (plain html or
>>>php+html) that not use sessions (without session_start()) works well
>>>and these type of pages are sent to browser.
>>>
>>>If I make requests from another browser, but from the same host, or if
>>>I switch to another client host, a new session is created, I can
>>>navigate through a few pages and after some requests I experience the
>>>problem again.
>>>
>>>Notice that after about thirty minutes (a sort of timeout?) I can
>>>navigate again from this host+browser.
>>>
>>>So, after these tests, I'm pretty sure that the problem is caused by
>>>some stranges behaviours of sessions, but I don't know if I didn't
>>>consider some hosting provider's php.ini session settings, or if it
>>>could even be a bug or an unexpectedly weird handling of session
>>>variables.
>>>
>>>Thanks everyone for any clue you would give me to resolve this problem.
>>>
>>>-- Lorenzo
>>>
>>
>>Did you try asking your hosting provider? If you're having this
>>problem, chances are others are (or have been), also.
>>
>>--
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>>Remove the "x" from my email address
>>Jerry Stuckle
>>JDS Computer Training Corp.
>>jstucklex@attglobal.net
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>
>


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