Warning: session_start() - Permission denied

[klatil]

When following a tutorial in 3rd chapter of the FMStudio complete guide : Perofrming a Find-all and displaying a table of records, I get the following error message:

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(C:\Windows\SERVIC~2\NETWOR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\\sess_vnh0hst61d9g3e9p729sm49jk1, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\local\FileMaker\FMStudio_Tools.php on line 8

How do I correct this problem?

Thanks franK

[Michael Petrov]

This is an issue with the windows auto installer for PHP. You will have to do the following:
- get a PHP Info page and preview it in your browser (find it in the commands menu of DW)
- read on the first page of the phpinfo for the location of the loaded php.ini file
- open that file with notepad
- find session.save_path a number of times until you find a setting that references the path in your error
- change the path to C:\Windows\Temp\
- do the same for the upload_tmp_dir setting
- restart IIS for settings to take effect

Best Regards,
Michael Petrov

[klatil]

phpinfo has the following path to the php.ini

Loaded Configuration File    C:\Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\Web Publishing\publishing-engine\php\php.ini

If this is the file I'm supposed to modify, then I see the following in the "File uploads" section:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; File Uploads ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; Whether to allow HTTP file uploads.
file_uploads = On

; Temporary directory for HTTP uploaded files (will use system default if not
; specified).
;upload_tmp_dir =


Am I supposed to change ";upload_tmp_dir =" to "upload_tmp_dir ="C:\Windows\Temp\" ?


And in the sessions section should I change ";session.save_path = "/tmp" to "session.save_path = "C:\Windows\Temp\"?

I have attached my php.ini file (I had to change its extension from .ini to txt to be able to upload it.) since I do not see any  setting that would reference the path in my error.

Am I looking at the right file or am I on a completely wrong path?

Thanks franK

[Michael Petrov]

Hi Frank,

The issue is probably because you let FMS install PHP for you instead of doing it manually. Therefore now it is using a mix of settings and is generally not optimized for proper testing. Your best bet is to grab the installer from http://php.net and install that copy. However you will have to delete/rename the PHP ini from the FMI folder to prevent it from loading, specifically rename/delete this file:
 C:\Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\Web Publishing\publishing-engine\php\php.ini

Then install the installer version, modify the PHP ini for correct temp folders, and hten copy it into C:\Windows. Once done restart IIS and it should work better.