PHP sessions not working ???

Hello Piotr,

There are basically two possible reasons for PHP sessions not to be working:

1) sessions are not enabled in the PHP installation, which is very unlikely because many PHP web applications use sessions.
You can check if sessions are enabled by uploading a script containing . . .

phpinfo();

. . . to the calendar root on your server and start it with your browser. It will show you the PHP installation details. Now scroll down to (or search for) SESSION and check the first line.

2) the session save path (session.save_path) is incorrect. In more than 99% of the cases this is the problem.
In the same PHP installation details as above, some lines down, you will find the variable session.save_path (see screenshot). In my case it is "/tmp". I don't know what it should be in your case, maybe "/tmp", maybe not. You can change the value in the php.ini file (if you have access to that file).

Hopefully this solves your problem. If not, let me know and I will try to help.

Roel

Hi Piotr,

I assume PHP sessions are enabled. So the problem is almost certainly the session.save_path (wrong directory or permissions not correct).
I think you should just tell your provider that your PHP sessions are not working and ask them to solve this problem. And maybe give them a hint that it is probably due to a wrong session.save_path.

Often one can select a PHP version in the control panel of your web host. If this is possible you could try to switch to a different PHP version, for which the session.save_path has been set correctly. (each PHP version has it's own session.save_path, so it is quite possible that an other PHP version works fine).
The LuxCal calendar runs with PHP V5.4 or higher.

Roel