php configuration editor problem

[myweb]

php configuration editor saves php.ini in which extra spaces are added to some directive values as below:

session.save_handler = "files "

the above one caused a problem that a php web application namely XOOPS were unable to override the session save handler using the php session_set_save_handler() function, causing no session being saved thus nobody being able to login (XOOPS needs to use DB to save session data). I modified the above directive manually as below and all started to work again as usual.

session.save_handler = "files"

why does the editor add extra spaces to the directive values? will this be fixed in the future releases?

[cPanelDavidG]

This is a known and confirmed bug: http://bugzilla.cpanel.net/show_bug.cgi?id=6060

[jamiemcd]

I really hope this gets fixed soon (the original bug report was in October of 2007). I just had this happen to me. I used WHM's PHP Configuration Editor in advanced mode to bump up one setting from 32 to 64. But by using the editor, it also added spaces to several other settings that I didn't change.

For example:

session.serialize_handler ="php"

became

session.serialize_handler = "php     "

which of course broke all the pages using php sessions.

[deborahgsmith]

This is still a problem on our servers.

I modified the php.ini via the WHM Php Configuration Editor and it put spaces in these two variables:

session.serialize_handler ="php "
session.save_handler = "files "

http://bugzilla.cpanel.net/show_bug.cgi?id=6060

I see the bug has been marked as fixed/resolved in the bug report:

<snip>
------- Comment #4 From Kenneth Power 2008-05-28 14:26 [reply] -------

This is fixed in the 11.23 series.
</snip>

Our servers are running the following release:

WHM 11.23.2 cPanel 11.23.3-R25971
CENTOS Enterprise 4.6 i686 on virtuozzo - WHM X v3.1.0

Can someone clarify?

Thanks!

Deborah Smith
Server and Technical Support
San Francisco Host

[deborahgsmith]

Bug 7157 Submitted