300 login required

Submitted by alt2254 on 2007-08-28

I'm unable to login to my newly-created server. The setup script seems to run successfully and my index page reports "This server is configured and working correctly." But when I try to login with the client I get: "Update failed (300 login required)"
My error.log file is empty. I enabled command logging and can see my correct login information being passed in, then:
USER 1 2
> LIST USERS
ERROR 300 'Login required'

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Hello,

It looks like sessions are not working correctly with your PHP installation. Perhaps PHP doesn't have access to the session.save_path (this is a common error on Windows). See http://www.php.net/session for more information.

Regards,
Michał

Michal-
Thank you for the prompt response. Access to the session save directory I think is probably not the problem. It's the /tmp directory on my ISP's linux server. Here is the session phpinfo()

Session Support enabled
Registered save handlers files user sqlite
Registered serializer handlers php php_binary

Directive Local Value Master Value
session.auto_start Off Off
session.bug_compat_42 On On
session.bug_compat_warn On On
session.cache_expire 180 180
session.cache_limiter nocache nocache
session.cookie_domain no value no value
session.cookie_lifetime 0 0
session.cookie_path / /
session.cookie_secure Off Off
session.entropy_file no value no value
session.entropy_length 0 0
session.gc_divisor 100 100
session.gc_maxlifetime 1440 1440
session.gc_probability 1 1
session.hash_bits_per_character 4 4
session.hash_function 0 0
session.name PHPSESSID PHPSESSID
session.referer_check no value no value
session.save_handler files files
session.save_path /tmp /tmp
session.serialize_handler php php
session.use_cookies On On
session.use_only_cookies Off Off
session.use_trans_sid 1 1

Thank you!

The configuration looks good, so I don't know what may be the problem, but I'm pretty sure it's somehow related to sessions because the only place where error 300 is returned is the following code:

if ( !isset( $_SESSION[ 'user_id' ] ) )
        wi_error( 300 );

Regards,
Michał