[mythtv-users] MythWeb - sessions problem
Sean Burlington
sean at uncertainty.org.uk
Fri Oct 8 08:49:57 UTC 2004
Stephen Tait wrote:
> I've been having this problem for a while, but only recently found out
> what the problem was.
>
> I've been trying to configure mythweb to display the short day format
> (e.g. Mon, Tue, Wed, etc etc) in it's display, but whenever I add %a to
> the list of display variables, I always lose the setting after I refresh
> the page.
>
> Well, it seems that every single time I refresh the page a new session
> gets initted - each hit on F5 will generate a new session file in
> php_sessions, with all of the default settings and without my %a. Does
> anyone know why this might be? I'm not a big expert on how sessions work
> and how mythweb handles them - I've spent about an hour trying to figure
> out the code, but so far no dice, as my PHP knowledge is rather limited.
> I've also tried in vain to find out where the default session
> data/configuration is stored (all those includes!) in the hope of
> editing it manually and avoiding having to sort out the session thing,
> but again no joy...!
>
> Anyone have an idea what's up?
>
>
I had a problem with sessions which I resolved by commenting the line
# php_value session.save_path php_sessions
in /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/.htaccess
This was setting the path for storing mythweb session to a directory
that didn't exist.
--
Sean
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