[horde] session_start is throwing an error

[Mike Poznecki]

    On Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 10:24:22 AM CDT, Patrick Boutilier <boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca> wrote:  
 
 On 04/18/2018 12:20 PM, Mike Poznecki wrote:
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> On Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 10:18:13 AM CDT, Patrick Boutilier 
> <boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca> wrote:
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> On 04/18/2018 12:11 PM, Mike Poznecki wrote:
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>  > On Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 9:41:33 AM CDT, Patrick Boutilier
>  > <boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca <mailto:boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca>> wrote:
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>  > On 04/18/2018 11:39 AM, Mike Poznecki wrote:
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>  >  > Hi all,  I have a new Horde install.  When I try to log in, I get
>  > HORDE: PHP ERROR: session_start():
>  > open(/var/lib/php/session/sess_5skahi3sno28lsa, 0_RDWR) failed: No such
>  > file or directory (2) [PID 3821 on line 204 of
>  > "/usr/share/pear/Horde/Session.php"]
>  >  > Why would I be getting this error?
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>  > Does the /var/lib/php/session directory exist? If so, can the user that
>  > the web server runs as write to the directory?
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>  > Yes, the directory exist and has permissions of 770.  So it should be
>  > able to be written to and read from.
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> Only if the web server user is the owner of the directory or is part of
> the group that owns the directory.
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> What does this command show?
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> ls -ld /var/lib/php/session
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> It shows:
> drwxrwx---  2  root  apache  8192 Apr 18 07:33  /var/lib/php/session/
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As long Apache is running as group apache that should work.

Does this create the file TEST in /var/lib/php/session ?

sudo -u apache touch /var/lib/php/session/TEST


Yes it does