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I'm using the new release of chronoform. The form works great untill... I enable the anti spam. Then I get following error message:
"Fatal error: session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: /tmp) in /home/httpd/vhosts/radioparadijs.be/httpdocs/components/com_chronocontact/chronocontact.php on line 200"

Also I don't see the anti-spam feature on the form. Gzip is off and cache is olso on off.

Btw I'm using joomla 1.5.1

Thanks for looking into this.

Rufin

Hi rufin,

I don't know if Max has fixed the sessions problem in this release - try setting your sessions back to database and see if that works.

The direct cause of this is that Joomla can't write to the temp folder to save the session data. Please check that the tmp folder exists and is writeable by whoever owns the site php (some isps set this to a particular user and not the root user).

Bob<br><br>Post edited by: GreyHead, at: 2008/03/06 21:26

Hi Bob. Thx for quick response. Sessions were on database all the time and both temp folders (one in the root and one under httpdocs)have all necessary permissions. Anything else I can do or try? I noticed that the "user" folder in my case is named "usr". Can that be the troublemaker? Rgds Rufin

Hi Rufin,

Hmmm line 200 is just session_start() so it should be using the site session settings I think. If so, I don't understand why it's writing to a file.

Hopefully Max can throw some light on this.

Bob

Hi Bob,
I suppose we'll have to wait for Max. Any idea when he'll be able to have a look at the issue?
Rgds
Rufin

Hi rufin,

- try setting your sessions back to database and see if that works.

I'm having the same issue on line 210. What does it mean to set the sessions back to database? Sorry I'm a newbie.

Please check that the tmp folder exists and is writeable by whoever owns the site php (some isps set this to a particular user and not the root user).

I've set the tmp to 777 still having the issue.

BTW I'm using Joomla 1.51

Hi all, We are trying to get the ChronoForms sessions to integrate with J1.5 database sessions table, this is not implemented yet!

right now it must be set to 'none', if you get this error about session then please try the soluitions suggested at other posts, this issue happens rarely with too few users only.

Cheers,

Max

Hi,
Problem is it doesn't use the tmp path I've set Joomla to use (at least it doesn't display it), that is what causes the error to occure I believe.
Is there a way to gain access to that variable for you and test my theory?

Best regards,
Tommy, Sweden.

Hi Tommy,

J1.5 presented a new way to deal with sessions through Joomla and this issue was solved and will be at the new release, currently there are 2 patch files at some post here, please search for "blank page on submit", I posted the files there!

Cheers

Max