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Answered Can't get into my site.

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    fourroses666 Reply #1, 12 years, 11 months ago
    I have a error message on the bottom of my source:

    « PHP Parse Error »
    Unknown: open(/var/lib/php/session/sess_6ndqamd9vvdjg93mmpp2ac0ah4, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13)

    Anyone knows whats going on?

    This question has been answered by sottwell. See the first response.

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      sottwell Reply #2, 12 years, 11 months ago
      Sounds like the location where the session files are supposed to be saved don't have the necessary permissions for PHP to be able to write them.

      Either change the permissions on the /var/lib/php/session/ directory or change the location of the PHP session files to one where you do have write-permission.
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        fourroses666 Reply #3, 12 years, 11 months ago
        Thanks, I'll contact the host and see if they can do anything!
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