PHP.ini Issue on install [SOLVED]

[surabhi]

Hi there,

Once I was done extracting files, the main link http://opencats.thejobswitch.com/ is not working. I get 'CATS Error: session.auto_start must be set to 0 in php.ini.' However, when I try http://opencats.thejobswitch.com/installwizard.php, it worked just fine and went all the way to the end and installation was done. The main page gives this error, so I cannot log in.

Can you help, please? Many thanks in advance for all the help.

Regards
Surabhi

[RussH]

Hi Surabhi,

is do you have session.auto_start = 1 in php.ini for some particular reason?


It's considered 'best practise' to have it set to 0, and opencats requires it too.

[amaisonneuve]

Well Well.. i'm back.. they always come back..

Ok so i just grabbed the latest code and i'm getting this error also.

CATS Error: session.auto_start must be set to 0 in php.ini.

I confirmed with phpinfo and its set to 0..

BTW running Centos 6 for this build.

[RussH]

Hi Alain..

did you grab the code from Master or one of the releases? I guess you ran composer to get the dependencies (of course!). What version of php / mysql are you running?

...and CentOS 6?! That's a bit old

The 'normal code' check for that is in index.php, line 107;

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/* Objects can't be stored in the session if session.auto_start is enabled. */
if (ini_get('session.auto_start') !== '0' &&
    ini_get('session.auto_start') !== 'Off')
{
    die('CATS Error: session.auto_start must be set to 0 in php.ini.');
}

..or the installation test is at line 212 in OpenCATS/lib/InstallationTests.php


Don't see why that wouldn't work - however if you're sure you have it set to 0 then comment it out