Thanks, that seemed to work! On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Vishnu D H <amdathlon.vis...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello, > > I was recently installing VCL web interface on my laptop. I faced the same > error on my web interface. The issue is due to the permission issues which > Josh mentions here. It clears the errors once u set the right permissions. > (Do chown -R web_server_user:web_server_group /var/lib/php/session where > web_server_user and web_server_group are the ones u set in 'httpd.conf'). > > -Vishnu > > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Josh Thompson <josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu>wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Tyler, >> >> I've never seen this one before, but it sounds like the path where php >> session >> information is stored is not writeable by the web server user (typically >> 'apache'). Check the ownership and permissions of /var/lib/php/session. >> >> ls -ld /var/lib/php/session >> drwxrwx--- 2 root apache 4096 Oct 19 2007 /var/lib/php/session/ >> >> This will give you the web server user: >> >> ps aux | grep httpd >> apache 26041 0.0 0.1 93576 7568 ? S Apr18 0:04 >> /usr/sbin/httpd >> >> In the examples above, httpd is running as the 'apache' user. The >> /var/lib/php/session directory is writeable by the 'apache' group. This >> requires a little more checking. >> >> grep apache /etc/group /etc/passwd >> /etc/group:apache:x:48: >> /etc/passwd:apache:x:48:48:Apache:/var/www:/sbin/nologin >> >> This shows us the 'apache' user's default group is 'apache'. So, the >> 'apache' >> user should have write access to /var/lib/php/session. >> >> Josh >> >>
