Potential dullard question - session_start error

tschutt

Joined: 2005-03-17
Posts: 2
Posted: Thu, 2005-03-17 16:35

Hello,
I have made a couple different attempts to install G2 on different systems, and have consistently had the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function session_start() in /usr/local/www/data-dist/gallery2/install/index.php on line 74

I can't help but think that I am missing something obvious, but I am completely scratching my head.

A gentle nudge from someone would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Tim
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Gallery URL (optional):
Gallery version: G2B1
Webserver (with version): Apache 2.1.3
Datatabase (with version): MySQL 4.1.5
PHP version (eg 4.2.1): 5.0.3
phpinfo URL (optional): http://schutt.no-ip.org/info.php
Graphics Toolkit(s): ImageMagick 6.2.0.5
Operating system: FreeBSD 5.3
Web browser/version: Various (FireFox, Safari, Camino... all OS X)
G1 version (for migration bugs):
 
mindless
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Joined: 2004-01-04
Posts: 8601
Posted: Thu, 2005-03-17 18:22

the installer needs php session support.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php
 
tschutt

Joined: 2005-03-17
Posts: 2
Posted: Thu, 2005-03-17 18:56

Really odd... I've been through that doc (prior to posting here), and still have the troubles. I'm sure I just read through it too quickly and missed something. Time to start from scratch.

I now see that this is outside of the relm of this forum....but thanks for taking the time to reply anyway! :-)

Tim

<** update **>

In case anyone else runs into this problem: I was having trouble with the PORTS install of PHP under FreeBSD 5.3. I believe that it is an issue with that install method, because once I built and installed PHP5 from the source, the problem was corrected.