1 Reply by George

(10 replies, posted in Installation)

Thanks for the responses, I have now resolved the problem.  As was suggested by TM, I adjusted the file path, as all of my permissions were correct.


While I had figured out what the problem was, not being able to read "PHP" prevented me from seeing the solution staring me right in the face.

The issue was that I did not understand that the syntax dirname(__FILE__). represented the relative path for the running script.  As TM mentioned,

TM wrote:

The function dirname(__FILE__) returns the path to the running script.

  This was why my entries were all being evaluated relative to the includes directory, even when I thought I was entering an absolute path.

I have now set it to be

ini_set('session.save_path', dirname(__FILE__).'/../tmp/');

which will give me the expected WEBROOT/tmp location, and is also "portable" if I were to move my installation to another folder/directory.

Thanks again to all who responded with suggestions.


Hope the explanation helps anyone else who may stumble on this issue as I did.  Now, on to evaluate FA on its merits.

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2 Reply by George

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I have figured out the issue, but not a valid solution.

I set the session.save_path setting as directed in the  includes/session.inc file.  However, I am seeing various errors, which suggests that there is a problem with parsing the path as set in the file.

1.  If I use ini_set('session.save_path', dirname(__FILE__).'/tmp/'); - that is setting the path to /tmp, then I get the following errors:

Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/opt/FrontAccounting/includes/tmp/)

2. if If I use ini_set('session.save_path', dirname(__FILE__).'./tmp/'); - that is setting the relative tmp path to /opt/FrontAccounting/tmp, then I get the following errors:

Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/opt/FrontAccounting/includes./tmp/)

3. if If I use ini_set('session.save_path', dirname(__FILE__).'/opt/FrontAccounting/tmp/'); - that is explicitly setting the path to /opt/FrontAccounting/tmp, then I get the following errors:

 Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/opt/FrontAccounting/includes/opt/FrontAccounting/tmp/)

It looks like the path is being read as relative to ./includes and not from the Dir_Root (/opt/FrontAccounting). 
If I make a symlink in ./included pointing to /opt, thereby making the paths valid, then everything seems to work (so far).  However, i don't know what else would end up breaking with this workaround, so I would prefer not to have to use it.

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3 Reply by George

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Don't have a .htacess file in place.  And I do have full access to the server.

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4 Topic by George

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A new installation on Ubuntu.  (FrontAccounting Version 2.3.24 Build 26.10.2015)

Eventually managed to get everything setup, and can login.  However, having an issue.
After clicking on any link, I'm returned to the login screen.  If I login, then I get to that previously clicked page, but I have to login after every click.

On the page(s), I get 4 lines of  errors:

session_start(): open(/opt/FrontAccounting/includes/opt/FrontAccounting/tmp//sess_hpsp7onb2fq9l0a05p85ts8in5, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in file: /opt/FrontAccounting/includes/session.inc at line 29
session_write_close(): open(/opt/FrontAccounting/includes/opt/FrontAccounting/tmp//sess_k7f4dqh3h1k89mnh9r8i189cj2, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in file: /opt/FrontAccounting/includes/session.inc at line 86
session_write_close(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/opt/FrontAccounting/includes/opt/FrontAccounting/tmp/) in file: /opt/FrontAccounting/includes/session.inc at line 86
session_start(): open(/opt/FrontAccounting/includes/opt/FrontAccounting/tmp//sess_k7f4dqh3h1k89mnh9r8i189cj2, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in file: /opt/FrontAccounting/includes/session.inc at line 90

The application is installed at /opt/FrontAccounting, which is the webroot for the V-host.  Apparently, the script is picking up the directory as a relative path as opposed to an absolute, and thus, is duplicating it, as in "/opt/FrontAccounting/includes/opt/FrontAccounting/tmp//". Note that there is also a double slash at the end of the path.

I have checked the permissions and they seem to be OK.

Any pointers?

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