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

[Ben Hare]

actually, you probably shouldn't have to really but i would try it anyway.

On 3 December 2012 13:56, Ben Hare <benhare at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>
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Benjamin J. Hare
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Phone: +61-415-607-197
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Email: ben at benhare.com