Installation problem

Hi all,

I ran into one error during the installation and wonder if someone can point out what I did wrong. I install on windows 2003 server, with Mysql ver. 4.0.16, PHP ver. 4.3.3. Please look at the list below, there is one FAIL, and the rest is OK

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Checking PHP version: OK!

Security notice
While MODx will work on your PHP version (4.3.4), usage of MODx on this version is not recommended. Your version of PHP is vulnerable to numerous security holes. Please upgrade to PHP version is 4.3.8 or higher, which patches these holes. It is recommended you upgrade to this version for the security of your own website.

Checking if sessions are properly configured: Failed!

Checking if assets/cache directory exists: OK!

Checking if assets/cache directory is writable: OK!

Checking if assets/cache/siteCache.idx.php file is writable: OK!

Checking if assets/cache/sitePublishing.idx.php file is writable: OK!

Checking if assets/images directory exists: OK!

Checking if assets/images directory is writable: OK!

Checking if assets/export directory exists: OK!

Checking if assets/export directory is writable: OK!

Checking if manager/includes/config.inc.php exists and is writable: OK!

Creating connection to the database: OK!

Checking table prefix `modx_`: OK!


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Thank you very much in advance for any help.

Best Regards,

TNT

Look at http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=2658.msg23321

Thank you funkybuddah , after I read the post that you gave me, and some other post. It was confussing at first but I finally managed to fix the error "Checking if sessions are properly configured: Failed!". I think I would be helpfull post it here if someone has a similar error.

What I did was adding a line of code that I copied from another post.
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=d30c8dd0bbdf04783c09047acc810183&topic=6385.msg50869

First I added this line to the /install/index.php

@ ini_set (’session.save_path’, ’/path/to/session/folder/’);

I have access to root dir. of my server. In my case this line was changed to

@ ini_set (’session.save_path’, ’e:/modx/temp/’);
// start session
session_start();


Then I added this same line to /manager/includes/config.inc.php

@ ini_set (’session.save_path’, ’e:/modx/temp/’);
<?php //MODx configuration file ?>

It worked for me. I hope this info is usefull.

Thanks again for a great forum.

Best Regards,

TNT

You really just need to get a properly configured PHP installation that takes care of setting the session path. And make sure if you do it this way, that e:/modx/temp is not within the web root or your users session data will be exposed...

Quote from: OpenGeek at Jan 24, 2007, 10:53 AM

You really just need to get a properly configured PHP installation that takes care of setting the session path. And make sure if you do it this way, that e:/modx/temp is not within the web root or your users session data will be exposed...

Thank you OpenGeek for letting me know. I fixed one problem, however, I got a new problem the admin login screen, and I have been searching help but I didn’t find one specifically for this. Maybe you know another thread for this error. This error may have something to do with the previous error I got because it has something to do with session_start():

Warning: session_start(): open(/tmp\sess_990cc24ba9d2a97c11559d9d5a0d1c21, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in E:\iso9000\modx-0.9.5\manager\includes\config.inc.php on line 41

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at E:\iso9000\modx-0.9.5\manager\includes\config.inc.php:41) in E:\iso9000\modx-0.9.5\manager\includes\config.inc.php on line 41

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at E:\iso9000\modx-0.9.5\manager\includes\config.inc.php:41) in E:\iso9000\modx-0.9.5\manager\includes\config.inc.php on line 41

Any help is greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

Best Regard,

TNT

Hi OpenGeek, I fixed the problem. It took me a while to figure that out. Basically, I added a line of code in the /manager/includes/config.inc.php that point to my temp folder outside of my root directory, and it worked like a champ. Thanks again for your help.

Cheers,

TNT

This is what I did.

if(!function_exists(’startCMSSession’)) {
function startCMSSession(){
global $site_sessionname;
session_name($site_sessionname);
session_save_path(’e:/temp/’); //added this line
session_start();