No Access To Admin Panel

[jcorrea920]

This is the warning message I get at the top of the admin login page.

 

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(tmp//sess_cbc24768b475ff456c57a471fe19709c, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in /var/www/web31/web/admin/includes/functions/sessions.php on line 103

Warning: The sessions directory does not exist: tmp/. Sessions will not work until this directory is created.

 

I triple checked and tmp/ directory is just fine. 777 permissions and exists. When I try to login It just refreshes the login page without actually granting me access to the control panel. Email & Password are correct because if you enter the wrong credential you get an error message that is in red saying so.

 

Would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.. :'(

[jcorrea920]

Apparently osCommerce will not work right on our web server if you select "Files" for session management on install. To solve this reinstall and select "Database" for session management. Thanks a million for such a wonderful program.... :thumbsup:

[mattwa]

Apparently osCommerce will not work right on our web server if you select "Files" for session management on install. To solve this reinstall and select "Database" for session management. Thanks a million for such a wonderful program.... :thumbsup:

 

To be fair, they tell you not to use file based session management if you are on a shared server if you click the help icon next to where you select it.

[RyanH]

The solution was MUCH easier than re-adding the install folder. You can EASILY edit configure.php in your catalog/includes folder and catalog/admin/includes to change the session management.

 

It WILL work in files mode, but you didn't create a directory called tmp/, therefore making file management of sessions impossible.

 

And agian, to be fair as mattwa stated, it does recommend use of the database for session management.

[jcorrea920]

The solution was MUCH easier than re-adding the install folder. You can EASILY edit configure.php in your catalog/includes folder and catalog/admin/includes to change the session management.

 

It WILL work in files mode, but you didn't create a directory called tmp/, therefore making file management of sessions impossible.

 

And agian, to be fair as mattwa stated, it does recommend use of the database for session management.

 

Take a look at the original post:

 

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I triple checked and tmp/ directory is just fine. 777 permissions and exists.

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