Post by Ozfarmer » Fri Oct 07, 2011 9:35 am

I cannot work out whats causing this

2011-10-07 12:31:25 - PHP Warning: session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: The session id is too long or contains illegal characters, valid characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and '-,' in /home/xxxxxxxxx/public_html/system/library/session.php on line 11

getting 100's /day in the error log.

What would this relate to?

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Post by Ozfarmer » Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:42 am

No one has any ideas?

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Post by uksitebuilder » Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:04 pm

Please try adding the following to your php.ini in your root and admin folder

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session.auto_start = 0;
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session.auto_start = Off;

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Post by Ozfarmer » Fri Oct 14, 2011 7:59 am

Hey Simon, thanks for repling tried both options and unfortunately they didnt work :'( still getting:
2011-10-14 10:55:54 - PHP Warning: session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: The session id is too long or contains illegal characters, valid characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and '-,' in /home/xxxxxxxx/public_html/system/library/session.php on line 11

Php.ini is:

magic_quotes_gpc = Off;
register_globals = Off;
default_charset = UTF-8;
memory_limit = 64M;
max_execution_time = 18000;
upload_max_filesize = 999M;
safe_mode = Off;
mysql.connect_timeout = 20;
session.auto_start = Off;
session.use_cookies = On;
session.use_trans_sid = Off;
session.gc_maxlifetime = 12000000;
allow_url_fopen = on;

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Post by uksitebuilder » Fri Oct 14, 2011 4:15 pm

Hi

Not sure what version of OC you are using, but try the following:

open: system/library/session.php

find

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session_start();
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$ok = @session_start();
if(!$ok){
   session_regenerate_id(true); // replace the Session ID
   session_start(); // restart the session (since previous start failed)
}
open: system/startup.php

find

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sesson_start();
change to

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$ok = @session_start();
if(!$ok){
   session_regenerate_id(true); // replace the Session ID
   session_start(); // restart the session (since previous start failed)
}

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Post by Ozfarmer » Fri Oct 14, 2011 5:11 pm

Thanks Simon, no still the same.. Whats the easiest procedure to re-install OC?

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Post by uksitebuilder » Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:04 pm

Upload all the default files apart from config.php and admin/config.php

I think though it is a server configuration that is causing your problem

A search on google for your error message reveals several results

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Post by goozluk » Wed Apr 02, 2014 4:40 pm

Before doing all modifications, try to erase all cookies of your website. it worked for me.

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Post by paynechia » Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:49 am

Hi,

I have the same issue but so far it is not showing up after I added ob_start (); before session_start(); in system/library/session.php

Is this the right way to solve this issue? Will this cause any effect to the site?

Hope to hearing for some advise here.

Thanks.

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Post by johnp » Tue Oct 30, 2018 5:58 am

I have the same errors on one of my sites. I use Crawlprotect which logs hack/injection attempts. This error appears at the same time as a hack/injection attempt. I have no idea if the matters are related.

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