cant start sessions!

[stealthelephant]

anyone know how to enable sessions with php for apache?

i am on a box where the sessions dont start, i do the very most simple scripts
eg

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['test'] = "just a test value";
echo "session variable set to $_SESSION['test']";
?>
<a href "next.php">next</a>

//next.php
<?php
session_start();
echo "session variable is $_SESSION['test']";
?>


anyone have any ideas what i have forgotten? even text examples come up empty handed

[freddycodes]

Are you positive that sessions are not working? Is there an error?

Have you tried looking to make sure there is a session id


<?php
session_start();
print session_id();
?>

[stealthelephant]

thanks for the speedy reply freddycodes;
i just tried that and it does actually print out sessionids, but the 2 are different

[stealthelephant]

i have put in
<a href="link.php?<?=SID?>">
to pass the session id along and the 2 print out the same, was i supposed to be using cookies for the previous example?

now i gotta figure out why the variable didnt come over

[stealthelephant]

ok, im a little lost
if i print out something then call session_start() im supposed to get an error right? but i dont....

[freddycodes]

Yeah that is strange. Do you have a phpinfo() page I could look at?

[stealthelephant]

yeah thanks,
its in the zip file;
current environment is
winxp, dreamweaver, vmware -> slackware if that makes any difference

[freddycodes]

Well one thing is your session.save-path is set to /tmp which of course does not exist on WIndows. But this should throw an error. You should make a folder C:/tmp and change the path to that in the php.ini file. Then restart the web server. On the linux box it should be okay at /tmp

[stealthelephant]

thanx, will give that a shot tomorrow, time for sleepies at the moment :o

[stealthelephant]

got it working on both boxes

thanks for the help