Fastshosts Compatibility Test

Hi Drew,

Their support is not being that helpful - they say sessions are on, which judging by phpinfo is true. This is the rest of that section:

Session Support                   enabled
Registered save handlers          files user redis
Registered serializer handlers    php_serialize php php_binary

Directive                         Local Value                   Master Value
session.auto_start                Off                           Off
session.cache_expire              180                           180
session.cache_limiter             nocache                       nocache
session.cookie_domain             no value                      no value
session.cookie_httponly           Off                           Off
session.cookie_lifetime           0                             0
session.cookie_path               /                             /
session.cookie_secure             Off                           Off
session.entropy_file              /dev/urandom                  /dev/urandom
session.entropy_length            32                            32
session.gc_divisor                1000                          1000
session.gc_maxlifetime            1440                          1440
session.gc_probability            0                             0
session.hash_bits_per_character   5                             5
session.hash_function             0                             0
session.name                      PHPSESSID                     PHPSESSID
session.referer_check             no value                      no value
session.save_handler              files                         files
session.save_path                 /var/lib/php/session          /var/lib/php/session
session.serialize_handler           php                           php
session.upload_progress.cleanup   On                            On
session.upload_progress.enabled   On                            On
session.upload_progress.freq      1%                            1%
session.upload_progress.min_freq  1                             1
session.upload_progress.name      PHP_SESSION_UPLOAD_PROGRESS   PHP_SESSION_UPLOAD_PROGRESS
session.upload_progress.prefix    upload_progress_              upload_progress_
session.use_cookies               On                            On
session.use_only_cookies          On                            On
session.use_strict_mode           Off                           Off
session.use_trans_sid             0                             0

session.save_path is their default. Other sites I have worked on show it as /tmp, but switching it to this has no effect. Is there anything else there that might be causing Runway headaches? There are some disparities between this and other sites but I wouldn't know what effect these would have.

If there is nothing obvious I will go back to them again.

Thanks!

No worries thanks for taking a look - I will get back to them

I had a similar issue with Fasthosts before (and they were really unhelpful!) where some PHP that worked on other hosts was fishing to execute.

It turned out then, it was because the account had been set up on a Windows Server - which had strange configuration settings. They moved me to a Linux server and everything was fine.

Hi,

Thanks for the info Haydn, unfortunately it is a Linux server so that isn't the answer.

Had a look and there are some options for how to run PHP - as a CGI Application, FastCGI Application or an Apache Module. Could this be making a difference? It is set to FastCGI.

Annoyingly the Apache Module option means I only have 5.3.3 available, which is too low for Runway.

I have only run the test - will try the full site and see what happens