Help with PHPLive

[ray]

We use phplive... http://www.phplivesupport.com/
It is a chat program... that was working fine.
An application of ours which has been working fine for some time now
recently began logging us out after 10-20 number of minutes. The application
relies heavily on sessioning. At first we thought it was due to a version
upgrade. After rolling back to the previous version, it was discovered the
exact same problem still exists.

This appears to be a PHP sessioning timeout issue.
Anyone else using this program?

Any tips or ideas on how to fix this?

[james]

I'm getting exactly the same problem - very annoying indeed.

Does anyone know a solution?

James

[brett]

Isn't this related to Dathorn having the /tmp directory getting wiped every couple of hours? There has got to be another way... I could be wrong.

[ray]

Yes it is

You are right, it is related to the temp / sessions being wiped every 2 hours... we found a way around it by putting the php.ini folder in a different place in our account.

[-Oz-]

Ray, you should post the soultion so that james can fix his issues.

[sdjl]

I believe the solution was to put the following in a php.ini file:

session.save_path = /home/username/tmp

Obviously tmp needs to be created.

Taken from this post: http://forums.dathorn.com/showthread.php?t=169

David

[ray]

sdjl is right: the solution is to make a custom php.ini file. You can run "rpm -qa | grep php" to see what version of php the server you're on uses. Then go to www.php.net and get the source for that version, and use the php.ini-recommended as a starting point. You then can define the session tmp path, and all should be well. The thing that sucks about this as a solution though is the php.ini must be placed in *every* folder that contains php script. If it's only in one place, you get crossed between the server's php.ini and yours.