[Mediawiki-l] logged in users can't save edits

Tue May 3 01:54:24 UTC 2005

This has sparked a general question for me that I haven't seen elsewhere
(not that it isn't, in fact, elsewhere).  If I want to run MediaWiki in a
farm environment (insert favorite load balancing technology), do I have to
setup the session_save_path to point to a filesystem location shared by all
web servers?  AKA an NFS export mounted in the same place on all apache
boxes.

If this is true, are there other requirements of a load balanced/farmed
environment?

Thanks,
Jeff

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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jamie Bliss
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 2:28 PM
To: ben wiseley; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] logged in users can't save edits

I'm seeing this on the Wikiwyg server, too. At first, I thought it was a
misconfiguration thing, but maybe not.

What PHP versions are being used? What does session_save_path() return
before changing it? (call it without any arguments)

On 4/28/05, ben wiseley <wiseleyb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On my local box (Ubuntu) this works fine.
> 
> On the linux host I'm using once you log in (as a normal user, 
> WikiSysop, any user type) and edit something (any page) and hit save 
> it acts as though you hit the preview. If you're logged out you can edit
and save normally.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Could this be related to this quirk? In a previous email I asked about 
> users auto logging out. I added this:
> 
> session_save_path("/public_html/sandBoxWiki/sessions");
> 
> to my LocalSettings.php. Now users only stay logged in if you check 
> "Remember my password across sessions"
> 
> -ben

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