[Melbourne-pm] Looking for a Perl consult... problem with sessions

[Ben Hare]

the error you gave doesn't seem to indicate apache-session is missing
necessarily. perhaps you need to restart apache after fixing the
permissions? ( if it's mod-perl you will ).

On 3 December 2012 13:53, Rick Giner <rickginer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I came to the same conclusion, but Apache::Session doesn't appear in the
> codebase. Is it possible that other files could be being used outside the
> web root?
>
> What do you think might require permissions? I have added the /sessions/
> folder and given it ownership of www-data (same as Apache) and even tried
> permissions 777. Are there other folders I should be lookign at? Or
> particular users I should try executing processes as?
>
> To my knowledge the OS hasn't been changed recently, but I don't think it
> was a well-maintained box. When I restarted it last week Apache complained
> about missing files from sites that had been decommissioned, but their
> definitions not removed from sites-enabled - so someone had been tinkering
> in there and not properly tidying up after themselves. No idea when the box
> was last restarted, but it's quite possible modules were uninstalled or
> changed months ago and no one would have noticed until the box was restarted
> last week
>
>
>
>
> On 3/12/12 2:06 PM, Benjamin wrote:
>
>
> Appears to be using Apache::Session somewhere in there and sounds a lot like
> permission issues.
>
> Have you recently moved the site to a new environment or upgraded the host
> OS?
>
> Can you grep the Perl source for the application for "Apache::Session" and
> grab the chunk of related code?
>
> Ben
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Rick Giner <rickginer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if anyone can help. This may only take a short time to debug for
>> someone in the know. More than happy to compensate for any time spent on
>> it...
>>
>> It's been a long while since I have worked with Perl, I am in a Ruby role
>> right now but we have an old (12 year old) Perl website that stopped working
>> after the server rebooted. The shopping cart did, anyway.
>>
>> It seems to be trying to read session information relating to the shopping
>> cart, the error showing up in the log is a "Could not open file
>> '/var/lock/session/Apache-Session-blah.lock' for writing: No such file or
>> directory at /usr/share/perl/5.8/CGI/Carp.pm line 314". The /session/ folder
>> it refers to doesn't actually exist, though even after I created it the
>> error persists and no session files are being written.
>>
>> If anyone has any time to help, we would greatly appreciate it and can
>> arrange for a console into the server and much beer + cash prizes for anyone
>> that helps solve our problem!
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Rick Giner
>> 0416 500 924
>>
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