From: moodler <moodler>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 07:33:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Put in a check for the sessions directory
X-Git-Url: http://git.mjollnir.org/gw?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f978ad0acbb198cb5a43cb5129953d2366a63418;p=moodle.git

Put in a check for the sessions directory
---

diff --git a/admin/index.php b/admin/index.php
index 894be6c843..b1c80d91b1 100644
--- a/admin/index.php
+++ b/admin/index.php
@@ -11,6 +11,14 @@
         die;
     }
 
+/// Check that sessions are supported
+
+    if (!is_readable(ini_get('session.save_path'))) {
+        $sessionpath = ini_get('session.save_path');
+        notify("Warning: It appears your server does not support sessions (session.save_path = '$sessionpath')");
+    }
+
+
 /// Check that config.php has been edited
 
     if ($CFG->wwwroot == "http://example.com/moodle") {
diff --git a/lang/en/docs/install.html b/lang/en/docs/install.html
index 3f53e232fb..63b7dbd17f 100644
--- a/lang/en/docs/install.html
+++ b/lang/en/docs/install.html
@@ -45,7 +45,9 @@
     or <A HREF="http://www.easyphp.org/">EasyPHP</A> which will install Apache, 
     PHP, and MySQL for you. Make sure you enable the GD module so Moodle can process 
     images - you may have to edit php.ini and remove the comment (;) from this 
-    line: 'extension=php_gd.dll'.</p>
+    line: 'extension=php_gd.dll'. You may also have to fix the directory for 
+    session.save_path - instead of the default "/tmp" use a Windows directory 
+    like "c:/temp".</p>
 
   <p>On Mac OS X I highly recommend the <a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/">fink</a> 
     project as a way to download easily-maintainable packages for all of this.  If you are less