Help: php.ini and the session.auto_start !!!!!!!!!!!

[aida]

Hi Everybody,

I have installed oscommerce on my website, but it shows a warning at the top of the catalog/index.php that says, the session.auto_start is enabled in the php.ini file of the webserver. So none of the links in the page work. and a Fatal Error occures when I point to them:

 

Fatal error: Unknown(): The script tried to execute a method or access a property of an incomplete object. Please ensure that the class definition navigationhistory of the object you are trying to operate on was loaded _before_ the session was started in /home/mydomain/public_html/catalog/includes/application_top.php on line 309

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My Webserver owner says that he can not, disable the session.auto_start as long as some of his customers, need that to be enabled,

could anyone Help me?

Thanks.

[Guest]

I need help with this too.

[beardeddone]

Hi Everybody,

I have installed oscommerce on my website, but it shows a warning at the top of the catalog/index.php that says, the session.auto_start is enabled in the php.ini file of the webserver. So none of the links in the page work. and a Fatal Error occures when I point to them:

 

Fatal error: Unknown(): The script tried to execute a method or access a property of an incomplete object. Please ensure that the class definition navigationhistory of the object you are trying to operate on was loaded _before_ the session was started in /home/mydomain/public_html/catalog/includes/application_top.php on line 309

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My Webserver owner says that he can not, disable the session.auto_start as long as some of his customers, need that to be enabled,

could anyone Help me?

Thanks.

This is what I have in my php.ini file for session and have had no problems with sessions, just be sure you have a c:\tmp\sessions subdirectory on your server

 

[Session]
session.save_handler      = files  ; handler used to store/retrieve data
session.save_path         = c:\tmp\sessions   ; argument passed to save_handler
                                  ; in the case of files, this is the
                                  ; path where data files are stored
session.use_cookies       = 1      ; whether to use cookies
session.name              = PHPSESSID  
                                  ; name of the session
                                  ; is used as cookie name
session.auto_start        = 0      ; initialize session on request startup
session.cookie_lifetime   = 0      ; lifetime in seconds of cookie
                                  ; or if 0, until browser is restarted
session.cookie_path       = /      ; the path the cookie is valid for
session.cookie_domain     =        ; the domain the cookie is valid for
session.serialize_handler = php    ; handler used to serialize data
                                  ; php is the standard serializer of PHP
session.gc_probability    = 1      ; percentual probability that the 
                                  ; 'garbage collection' process is started
                                  ; on every session initialization
session.gc_maxlifetime    = 432000  ; after this number of seconds, stored
                                  ; data will be seen as 'garbage' and
                                  ; cleaned up by the gc process
session.referer_check     =        ; check HTTP Referer to invalidate 
                                  ; externally stored URLs containing ids
session.entropy_length    = 0      ; how many bytes to read from the file
session.entropy_file      =        ; specified here to create the session id
; session.entropy_length    = 16
; session.entropy_file      = /dev/urandom
session.cache_limiter     = nocache; set to {nocache,private,public} to
                                  ; determine HTTP caching aspects
session.cache_expire      = 180    ; document expires after n minutes
session.use_trans_sid     = 1      ; use transient sid support if enabled
                                  ; by compiling with --enable-trans-sid

url_rewriter.tags         = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=fakeentry"

[Guest]

Hi Everybody,

I have installed oscommerce on my website, but it shows a warning at the top of the catalog/index.php that says, the session.auto_start is enabled in the php.ini file of the webserver. So none of the links in the page work. and a Fatal Error occures when I point to them:

 

Fatal error: Unknown(): The script tried to execute a method or access a property of an incomplete object. Please ensure that the class definition navigationhistory of the object you are trying to operate on was loaded _before_ the session was started in /home/mydomain/public_html/catalog/includes/application_top.php on line 309

------------

My Webserver owner says that he can not, disable the session.auto_start as long as some of his customers, need that to be enabled,

could anyone Help me?

Thanks.

This is what I have in my php.ini file for session and have had no problems with sessions, just be sure you have a c:\tmp\sessions subdirectory on your server

 

[Session]
...
session.auto_start ? ? ? ?= 0 ? ? ?; initialize session on request startup
...

Maybe you didn't see where Aida said session.auto_start could NOT be disabled. This doesn't help at all as your php.ini has autostart disabled.

 

Back to the drawing board.

[OceanRanch]

How about trying adding this to catalog/includes/application_top.php at the top of the file.

ini_set("session.auto_start", 0);

HTH

Tom

[Guest]

How about trying adding this to catalog/includes/application_top.php at the top of the file.

ini_set("session.auto_start", 0);

HTH

Tom

that doesn't work because as soon as the next page starts to process PHP uses the ini file setting and hoses the sessions.

 

But I found a workaround. I did some testing and found that php.exe will use a ini file in the current directory if one exist whereas the isapi filter does not. It always uses the ini from the %system% directory. well all of the sites on the server are running isapi. so I put a php ini in the same directory with php.exe and I run that one site in cgi mode.

 

There is talk of being able to specify the ini file with the -c switch but I wasn't able to get that to work.