session - PHP session_start fails

Question

I'm trying to start the session in a header page in my webiste. But it seems there might be some sort of bug because it fails with the following error:

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(xamppmpsess_a7430aab4dd08d5fc0d511f781f41fe5, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in D:DevelopmentPHPtIncludeheader.php on line 3

I'm using the default settings for xampp, everything is straight out of the box. For some reason its failing to open the file. however when i go to the directory with the session files in it, the files are there, they are just empty. Is this a bug? or am I doing something wrong?

php version 5.2.8

Answer 1

First stop the Xampp Server.

session.save_path = "xamppmp"

and change it to look like this

session.save_path = "C:xamppmp"

Restart the Xampp Server.

That’s it now your session should work as expected.