Warning: session_start(): open simple solution

About the error:

Warning: session_start(): open
(/tmp/sess_72a071b97d6d78660c8df96fe4fb0b6d, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in
/www/c/username/htdocs/store/catalog/includes/functions/sessions.php on line 67

or similar.

There are actually a lot of reason why this would occur but let me just give you the major ones and how to get over it.

*Please take note that this does not guarantee, it may or may not work on this matter because it will depend on how your system works or how the site was configured.

One major reason you are receiving this is cache problem that is still residing on your Temporary Internet Files on Windows. Try deleting those plus delete the Cookies, close down the Shopping Cart and then open it again. Refreshing the page while it is still open will likely cause the same problem because some servers do hold on the same session of the server and the browser so you need to close the page and re open it.

Another major reason is actually a server issue, it is a configuration thing on the powweb server regarding the TMP folder or directory if it is allowed to be accessed by users other than the powweb admins. You need to ask the powweb staff about this matter.

One thing you may want to try out is playing around with this option under your configure.php file

look for this one
define('STORE_SESSIONS', ''); // leave empty '' for default handler or set to 'mysql'

As of my theory, using mysql to store sessions may help because all users already have access to the database so no need to write a file on the TMP directory or folder. It will look like this if you edit it.

define('STORE_SESSIONS', 'mysql'); // leave empty '' for default handler or set to 'mysql'

If it works, do both for admin and catalog.

Please feel free to check on this thread
http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.p...threadid=26020

No guarantees it will work but it isthe closest I can think of, please feel free to comment or have other suggestions.

If you need assistance, email me at wenzlerpaul@yahoo.com

Hope it helps,
Paul V. Barrera