On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Jean-Francois wrote: > It looks like right after installing there is a problem : > > at http://<localhost>/phpMyAdmin/index.php : a red line with > "phpMyAdmin - Erreur" > "Erreur lors du do?=marrage de la session, veuillez vo?=rifier les erreurs > indiquo?=es par PHP ou dans le fichier to?=moin du serveur web, et configurer > PHP > correctement." > > Then from apache error log : > > [Wed Apr 15 00:17:04 2009] [error] PHP Warning: session_start() [<a > href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: > open(/tmp//sess_kt447gtf9i2qj3f74b3jve2abdf8fgi8, O_RDWR) failed: Permission > denied (13) in /phpMyAdmin/libraries/session.inc.php on line 87 > [Wed Apr 15 00:17:04 2009] [error] PHP Warning: Unknown: > open(/tmp//sess_kt447gtf9i2qj3f74b3jve2abdf8fgi8, O_RDWR) failed: Permission > denied (13) in Unknown on line 0 > [Wed Apr 15 00:17:04 2009] [error] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed to write > session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of > session.save_path is correct () in Unknown on line 0 > > I made the sym link as stated - did I miss something ? > What are basic tests to find the root ? > any idea ?
You need to give write permissions to your webserver on the /var/www/tmp directory. -- Antoine

