Posted by Nik Coughlin on 02/28/07 04:57

Hendri Kurniawan wrote:
> Nik Coughlin wrote:
>> Steve wrote:
>>> "Nik Coughlin" <nrkn.com@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:es2o3p$550$1@aioe.org...
>>>> Sessions have unexpectedly stopped working on a client's webserver.
>>>>
>>>> PHP Version 4.4.1 running under IIS. When moving from page to page
>>>> the session information is lost.
>>>>
>>>> It used to work fine, and the same code works on other machines.
>>>> AFAIK no-one has been messing with the box, but it's possible. I've
>>>> asked them to try and find out if anyone has changed anything.
>>>>
>> The second one has nothing that helps me determine the cause of my
>> problem either.
>>
>> A minimal test case:
>>
>> sessionTest1.php:
>> <?php
>> session_start();
>> $_SESSION[ 'test' ] = "Testing";
>> echo "Test = " . $_SESSION[ 'test' ] . "<br>";
>> echo '<a href="sessionTest2.php?' . htmlspecialchars(SID) .
>> '">Test Page 2</a>';
>>>
>>
>> sessionTest2.php:
>> <?php
>> session_start();
>> echo "Test = " . $_SESSION[ 'test' ] . "<br>";
>> echo '<a href="sessionTest1.php">Test Page 1</a>';
>>>
>>
>> You can see what happens here:
>>
>> http://www.masterpiece.co.nz/sessionTest1.php
>>
>>
>
> Just taking a stab in the dark here: Make sure that your session
> directory (the directory that PHP store session information) exists.
> If you don't know where the directory is see php.ini file

I don't have physical or VNC, or in fact any access to the machine apart
from ftp into the the site root. Looks like I might have to physically
travel to the machines location to figure out what's wrong :|

> Also take a look at any error log. I don't know about IIS, but when I
> use apache, I can specify to PHP to send error message to Apache's
> error log.

Thanks

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