Step 2 installation problem on shared hosting

[deburca]

Hi,

On Step 2 I am receiving the following problems:

Writable Session Save Path (/home/phpsessions) Not A Valid Directory
PHP Memory Limit >= 10M Warning: 8M (Set this to 10M or larger in your php.ini file)
Note: Your php configuration file (php.ini) is located at:
/usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini

As I am on a shared hosting service I do not appear to be able to access the /home/phpsessions folder, also I cannot see (via an FTP client) the /usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini

Any help or pointers to other posts in this forum appreciated.

[epalissad]

Hi,
I hade the exact same problem and solved it by entering the following in my .htaccess file:

php_value memory_limit 10M
php_value session.save_path /your/path/to/your/created/folder

You have to create a folder for temporary sessions. I called it sessions and placed it outside my webspace, in my case i placed it in /public_html/sessions and gave it the following rights 770.

The .htaccess file is located with the other files and folders, same directory as data, modules etc...and it it just a file that contains those two lines of code above and named .htaccess.

Hope this helps, there are of course other ways of solving this issue but this was pretty easy.

[deburca]

Hi, thanks for that.

Unfortunately I do not think that my hosting provider (www.fasthosts.co.uk) allows .htaccess file changes as when I upload the file I get a page: "internal server error".

Any other workarounds or is it a case of finding another provider?

[spants]

Same problem....I added the bold items below to index.php / install.php
Tony


/************************************************** *******************************
* $Id: index.php,v 1.268 2005/12/15 19:04:15 wayne Exp $
* Description: Main file and starting point for the application. Calls the
* theme header and footer files defined for the user as well as the module as
* defined by the input parameters.
************************************************** ******************************/
//error_reporting(E_ALL);

ini_set('memory_limit','16M');
ini_set('session.save_path','/directory that you have access to!/');


if (!is_file('config.php')) {
header("Location: install.php");
exit();

[deburca]

Thanks Tony - that seems to have solved it and the installation has successfully completed.

James