Checking if sessions are properly configured: Failed!

I think it’s best indeed... This thread looks like a detective story packed with a lot of chapters

I could install MODx on dotcompal’s server

All I have done was to add following code to to the top of /install/index.php and after installation to /manager/include/config.inc.php:

(this folder is outside DocumentRoot and needs to be writeable)

When installing, I realized the session variable that will check if sessions work is generated on the first page of the installer:
http://domain.com/install/index.php when the URL variable "?s=set" is not passed. So, if you fail the first test, make some changes and hit "retry" the test will always fail. You need to restart the whole installer.

Boby

Thank you very much for your help in installing ModX.

Hey Guys!

I am sorry to bother you with this old problem again.
I tried to install a ModX version 0.9.5 on a apache, php 4.4 server. and keep getting this error.
"Checking if sessions are properly configured: Failed!"
I have no access to php.ini, so i added the fowing line(i tried different paths all 777):

session_save_path(’var/www/s7u85/files/session/’);

just before this line

session_start();

I also tried to put in:

@ ini_set (’session.save_path’, ’var/www/s7u85/files/session/’);

I changed it in these files(in these files i found session_start(); ):

install/index.php
install/instprocessor.php
assets/modules/docmanager/includes/process.inc.php

this i how my phpinfo looks like:

Session Support enabled
Registered save handlers files user

Directive Local Value Master Value
session.auto_start Off Off
session.bug_compat_42 On On
session.bug_compat_warn On On
session.cache_expire 180 180
session.cache_limiter nocache nocache
session.cookie_domain no value no value
session.cookie_lifetime 0 0
session.cookie_path / /
session.cookie_secure Off Off
session.entropy_file no value no value
session.entropy_length 0 0
session.gc_divisor 100 100
session.gc_maxlifetime 1440 1440
session.gc_probability 0 0
session.name PHPSESSID PHPSESSID
session.referer_check no value no value
session.save_handler files files
session.save_path /var/lib/php4 /var/lib/php4
session.serialize_handler php php
session.use_cookies On On
session.use_only_cookies Off Off
session.use_trans_sid Off Off

i am having no cookieblocker or similar and browsing with firefox 2.
has anyone a idea?

cheers, G


Okay i found it! after spending 5hours solving the problem, i realized today, ’ / ’ was missing in the path.
in the end it worked fine with this line:

session_save_path(’/var/www/s7u85/files/session/’);

in these files

install/index.php
assets/modules/docmanager/includes/process.inc.php