I was referring to strict Unix directory naming conventions. /tmp is the equivalent of root/tmp and no sysadmin wants you writing to his /tmp directory. In fact you should not be allowed to write to /tmp. While I have not checked this, I have the feeling that PHP takes care of this for you. If you are creating a subdirectory, say for data, on your web site the Unix path may be something like /websites/yoursitename/htdocs/subdirectory.
Since your default directory would be /websites/yoursitename/htdocs to get to /websites/yoursitename/htdocs/subdirectory you should use ./subdirectory which means "start in my default directory and go down one level to subdirectory. I'm sorry if this sounds critical, but I have found that many of the problem posted to this list are OS based, and I urge the members to learn both the operating system that they do their development on and the box where your site is hosted. The use of OS standard directories such as /tmp or /etc are bad form in Unix and make error log analysis difficult at best Bruce Karstedt President Technology Consulting Associates, Ltd. Tel: 847-735-9488 Fax: 847-735-9474 -----Original Message----- From: Julie Meloni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 10:13 PM To: Bruce Karstedt Cc: 'php'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re[2]: [PHP] session problems.... BK> You should not be writing to /tmp that is a system directory. php.ini is a BK> file. If you need a "temporary" directory, use ./tmp that will be directory BK> in your web root directory. With all due respect, I think there's a reason that /tmp is the default session.save_path value in php.ini. /tmp is temp. It's where temporary things go. Saying "you shouldn't use that" is pretty much saying "Hey PHP Development Group, you've done this wrong for 2 years". If you don't want to write your session files to /tmp, then don't. But please don't say that it's wrong to do so. That's not the answer to the guy's particular problem. - Julie --> Julie Meloni --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> www.thickbook.com Find "Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 24 Hours" at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672323494/thickbookcom-20 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
