Another day, another new PHP install

February 21st, 2007

Marc Liyanage’s site, and his PHP for OS X package, in particular, rock. So now that I have a new little laptop– zoom!– I need to set up a new PHP/MySQL install, so I can GBTW.

Unfortunately, it seems that the last couple of times I’ve set up a new install of PHP 5, and I’ll get the database all up and running, I go to log in to the index page of some new project and… it fails. I get stuck, flailing, at the login page. It will tell me if I’ve entered an invalid login, but it will not go any further!

This is at least the second time I’ve done this, and you think I would have remembered the first time, but the answer seems to be in this line in the php.ini file:

session.auto_start = 1

Maybe that will help someone else someday. Maybe if nothing else, it will help me next time I stumble over this.

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