session start access denied, fail to open phpmyadmin

Question

At first i was trying to do the upload file function and some configuration. However though the file_upload is ON, the upload file function is still not working. After I do some configuration according to online tutorials my XAMPP server seems to have problem. These were the error messages when i run php file:

Warning: session_start(): open(/var/folders/_z/rzmc9ysn0r15n2_88d5y5lbh0000gn/T/sess_4ff2e15141e8e599a0617ccafaba00c9, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/presoft/session_test.php on line 4

Warning: session_start(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are required to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected the timezone 'UTC' for now, but please set date.timezone to select your timezone. in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/presoft/session_test.php on line 4

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/presoft/session_test.php:2) in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/presoft/session_test.php on line 4

I also can't access phpmyadmin and the error is:

Error during session start; please check your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly. Also ensure that cookies are enabled in your browser.

I'm using Xampp server on Mac OS. I already looked into session.save_path and the location is "Application/XAMPP/xamppfiles/temp". Tried "/tmp" but still the same.

Answer 1

Give read/write permissions to your Apache user on temp directory in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/.

To know your OS user: open Terminal and use command whoami

To know your Apache user: Open httpd.conf file in
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/httpd.conf and look for
user yourusername and Group admin

Answer 2

Usually this comes from a permission problem with the session.save_path; in this case I suggest you check the permissions on /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/temp/ and set them such that the webserver process can read and write files there.