Calendar Transfer Issues

[FuzzyJared]

My hosting account was just moved to a newer server configuration and now I am in a login loop. I have tried some of the other suggestions in the posts but have not been successful.

I uploaded the tester and it says that sessions failed. I have created a phpinfo file and it states that sessions are enabled and my path is "/var/php_sessions". I have tried to set this in the setup sessionPath.php but this didn't change anything.

Anyone else have a suggestion?

[FuzzyJared]

It lets me login, brings me to the event manager page and then when clicking on the a link it puts me back to the login screen.

Do I have to upload the sessionPath.php in binary?

[Brian]

Glad to help.

[FuzzyJared]

well actually I was a little early in my presumption that it was working.

Back to the login loop due to session_save_path I am assuming.

[Brian]

Make sure you're uncommenting that line in the sessionsPath file and the path is set to what the server administrator recommends.

[FuzzyJared]

This is what I have for the session save path
session_save_path("/var/php_sessions");

This is what my phpinfo() function states that it should be
/var/php_sessions

any thoughts?

[Brian]

If that's in the phpinfo, you shouldn't need to add it to the sessionsPath file.

Unfortunately I don't know enough about configuring a server to tell you exactly what you need to do, but your server administrator should be able to.

[ve9gra]

It is possible that the user running the web service doesn't have access to that folder (although it would be a pretty big oversight from your host).

What you can do is create your own sessions folder and override that path using the session_save_path command.

Just create a folder that is below your http root (basically not accessible from a browser, or in other words, if your website is all in "/public_html" when you're FTP'ing, create a folder like "/php_sessions"), and set the permissions to be 0777 (everyone full access). Then set that full path (you should be able to get your full root path from a phpinfo(); ) into the sessionPath.php file.

Hope this works.

[FuzzyJared]

Okay... so I called the host and had them resolve the php_session path and the tester passes. Unfortunately, when I try to go to the event manager page, I now have a ionCube warning. They said they had to edit the php.ini file change, which I have access to. Any thoughts on what they could have done to break it?

[ve9gra]

For ionCube to work, you need to have enable_dl set to on. This enables Dynamic Loading of extensions and is now disabled by default on lots of servers. Check with the Tester script to see if Zend would work for you and switch to that one - or get your host to enable dynamic loading.

[FuzzyJared]

yeah I finally got them to figure it out. They fixed it in the php.ini for both the sessions and the dl