I forgot to say that the problem I was having was with PHP 5.2.0 and Drupal 5.0 beta 2. If that helps any.<br><br><b><i>Carl Mc Dade <carl_mcdade@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Ok,<br><br>Then we are on the same page. I was trying to help him solve the problem with getting a PHP error message. Going by what is being provided in the post there was not really a problem with Drupal but the server. The most likely cause being that the PHP session which comes before Drupal is trying to write to a path that either does not exist or is not writable. Perhaps not allowing Drupal to copy/read the proper session id.<br><br>What I have done is change my php.ini session path to something other than the default temp. This is so that I can look in the database and on the server and compare the session ids. When I did this things started working again. Of course this may not be
the same case here. But it is something to look at and to start with.<br><br><b><i>Robert Douglass <rob@robshouse.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> No, the cookies aren't stored in the database. But neither are they <br>stored on the filesystem of the server (in Drupal or otherwise).<br><br>In case you are wondering about this directive in php.ini:<br><br>; The path for which the cookie is valid.<br>session.cookie_path = /<br><br>I don't think that this is a path on the file directory of the server. I <br>know that my apache doesn't have read or write access to /.<br><br>You can find all the information that gets stored on the server about a <br>user's session in the sessions database table.<br><br>cheers,<br><br>Robert<br><br>Carl Mc Dade wrote:<br>> I was of the understanding that drupals "logged sessions" and php <br>> "session cookies" were two different
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