By wegster on

Subject says it all. Lots of Googling and no solutions. Every response appears to be to not set session.save_handler to user in php.ini, or ignores the fact that drupal needs it set to user.

System:
IBM server, 2xPIII-1GHz, 1GB RAM
FreeBSD 5.4-Stable
apache-2.0.54_2
mod_php4-4.4.0,1
php4-mysql-4.4.0
php4-session-4.4.0

Hitting the website /drupal directory inevitably results in:

[error] [client 10.0.0.65] PHP Fatal error: Unknown(): Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: /tmp) in Unknown on line 0

which is NOT set in the global php.ini, although session/save_handler: user is set, so I'm assuming that's the default (/tmp)

Fighting this for goin on 8 hours at this point, getting quite old.

I'm unable to upgrade to try php5, as I also need to run an earler version of xoops on this box for some dev work.

This really needs a resoltuion that is in big bold writing in a FAQ somewhere on both PHP and Drupal sites.

Anyone actually have this combination working, hopefully from current BSD Ports system?

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wegster commented

Hmm, no way to edit existing posts either? :-(

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wegster commented

Ran across a few other issues as well, primarily $base in settings.php (in drupal tree), which was odd, as the site would work, but all the urls were being rewritted hokey, pointing to http://site/?q=N etc and thus not working. Fixed $base and things are now working. I added the start of a FreeBSD specific install page onto the doc site.

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futurahost commented

Hello

Strong workaround is:

Edit your php.ini this way:
auto_prepend_file = /usr/local/lib/php.ini.prepend

On your /usr/local/lib/php.ini.prepend file put this:
<? session_module_name("files"); ?>

Of course, you can place your prepended file wherever you like, as long as you state it correctly on your auto_prepend_file directive of php.ini

Regards

Agustín Povarchik
FuturaHost.Com