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PHP PHP User Authentication Adding Authentication to Your Application Flash Messages

Posted by Brian Gwaltney
Brian Gwaltney
1,207 Points

How do you make this work on a live platform? My session isn't saved on my shared hosting server.

This process worked fine in my local environment, but I'm getting errors when I try to run it on my shared hosting site. There error I'm getting is this one:

Warning: SessionHandler::read(): open(/var/php_sessions/sess_5b4077feb9bf47a70ccde805100ae624, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory

Best I can tell, the session isn't being written due to a permission problem somewhere, but I can't figure out where I need to change a setting.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

1 Answer

Sergey Podgornyy
Sergey Podgornyy
20,660 Points
Sergey Podgornyy
Sergey Podgornyy
20,660 Points

Some hosting providers allows to change some configurations in php.ini, or you can contact tech support to solve your problem. If it's not possible, you can use JWT instead, or change your hosting provider

Brian Gwaltney
Brian Gwaltney
1,207 Points

Thank you. I did end up changing my hosting provider and it worked instantly. Much appreciated.