[csw-users] PHP Session module missing

[Manish Agrawal]

I am trying to install Mediawiki but am getting the error: "PHP's session module is missing". Help on enabling the session module in PHP would be great.

I had been unable to install Joomla earlier because the Joomla installer complained that the session save path was not set. It is possible that the missing session module may have caused that problem too.

Thanks
Manish

I have installed the following SAMP packages from Blastwave: <http://dcomsm1.ismlab.usf.edu/phpinfo.php>

pkg-get install apache2
pkg-get install mysql5
pkg-get install php5
pkg-get install php5_mysql
pkg-get install ap2_modphp5

I have also edited /opt/csw/php5/lib/php.ini wherever it appeared sessions would get enabled:

extension=session.so (uncommented the line)
session.save_handler = files
session.save_path = "/tmp"

Then I restarted apache2:
svcadm restart cswapache2

The error remains: <http://dcomsm1.ismlab.usf.edu/mediawiki/config/index.php>

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PHP 5.2.1 installed
Found database drivers for: MySQL
PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
PHP's session module is missing. MediaWiki requires session support in order to function.