Session_start failing because lack of permissions

Question

I'm using Windows 7 with an Administrator account. I have Xampp installed at C:\xampp.

I have the same problem that this situation, and I tried:

• Uncheck "read only" boxes to all files and folders
• attrib -r -a C:\xampp\tmp /S /D (without the /D gives file not found)
• Selected "everyone" in security just to make sure.

My xampp and tmp folder are now probably the unsafest folder in my computer, but I still get

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(\xampp\tmp\sess_1fcpeje5cqaopevmlclif9ejc0, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2)

Which I think it means that the folder is still not writable. My code is just as

<?php
session_start();
....
>

Answer 1

Now, you can do follow some step:

1. Stop apache
2. Go to php.ini file
3. press Ctrl + f then type "session.save_path" into Find Watch textbox.
4. You can set value to your tmp folder. for example : "D:\xampp\tmp".
5. Now you can re start your apache.

Good luck