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

[Benjamin]

Rick,

"Is it possible that other files could be being used outside the web root?"

perl -e 'print join "\n", @INC;'

Will list all locations Perl is looking for modules.

Apache::Session is not missing itself but some module somewhere is
obviously using it.

Apache::Session is able to be told where its lock files are to be stored.

There is a good chance that if the directory /var/lock/sessions was not
present before then whatever the code is that is using Apache::Session may
have specified a different location (just a guess there..)

Do you know where the 'shopping cart' code itself came from? Is the
application based on some other known framework that might aid is giving us
some clues?

Ben




On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Ben Hare <benhare at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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