PHP sessions instead of Symfony

[Aguay-val]

HI,

I'm using Agendav with php server side session management instead of using Symfony session management.

But after upgrade from beta to stable i couldn't do it anymore.

I have this :

[2017-02-09 12:45:43] agendav.CRITICAL: RuntimeException: Failed to start the session: already started by PHP. (uncaught exception) at /var/www/agendav/web/vendor/symfony/http-foundation/Session/Storage/NativeSessionStorage.php line 131 {"exception":"[object] (RuntimeException(code: 0): Failed to start the session: already started by PHP. at /var/www/agendav/web/vendor/symfony/http-foundation/Session/Storage/NativeSessionStorage.php:131)"} []

How can i use php sessions again ?

[jorgelzpz]

Just curious: are you using session auto-start?

I am thinking about providing a way to override some AgenDAV services from the settings file.

As a quick and dirty fix, you could edit web/app/services.php and return a NativeSessionHandler instead the current PdoSessionHandler.

[Aguay-val]

Just curious: are you using session auto-start?

I don't really know !

First of all, i successfully launch agendav without the error message :

Failed to start the session: already started by PHP. (uncaught exception)

What did i do ?

I realize i just done dirty fix by commenting the line :

if (PHP_VERSION_ID >= 50400 && \PHP_SESSION_ACTIVE === session_status()) {
            #throw new \RuntimeException('Failed to start the session: already started by PHP.');
        }

into the file vendor/symfony/http-foundation/Session/Storage/NativeSessionStorage.php. Yes that's really bad.

As a quick and dirty fix, you could edit web/app/services.php and return a NativeSessionHandler instead the current PdoSessionHandler.

I tried to do your quick fix without success.

If you want any other informations, just ask me :)

Thanks for your help !

[jorgelzpz]

@Aguay-val AgenDAV 2.1.0 allows you to modify already defined services. Try adding the following line to your settings.php file:

$app['session.storage.handler'] = null;

[Aguay-val]

I still have a problem.

Here the log. I was not able to upgrade due to this error :

agendav.CRITICAL: RuntimeException: Failed to start the session: already started by PHP. (uncaught exception) at /var/www/agendav-2.1.0/web/vendor/symfony/http-foundation/Session/Storage/NativeSessionStorage.php line 131 {"exception":"[object] (RuntimeException(code: 0): Failed to start the session: already started by PHP. at /var/www/agendav-2.1.0/web/vendor/symfony/http-foundation/Session/Storage/NativeSessionStorage.php:131)"} []

Fresh install of agendav 2.1.0.

This happen when i have davical server installed and running on the same server.

[Aguay-val]

Hey here i am again. I finally found what's wrong with my setup.

I wanted PHP to be used to store sessions as a file in "/ var / lib / php5 / session".

So i use the, into the /etc/apache2/php.ini:
Session.auto_start = 1

The agendav's PHP sessions with this config key, was not able to be created.

I try to disable this setting and finally it works. Unfortunatelly i have no more "sessions files" into the directory.

Do you think it would be possible for Agendav to work with this setting in the php.ini?

[jorgelzpz]

Perhaps disabling session.auto_start from your webserver is the cleanest way to make it work. The alternative is modifying AgenDAV's index.php by adding a ini_set() before the application starts.

Have a look at How to change configuration settings, if you use Apache you can place PHP directives inside a <Location>/<VirtualHost> to disable autostarting sessions just for AgenDAV.

I'm closing this issue as it is actually a configuration issue.