[rt-users] Moved Database, now cannot create sessions

[Mathew Snyder]

I'm guessing the problem here is that MySQL is trying to write the session data
to this directory.  However, with the database now on another server it clearly
doesn't have access to it.  Is this correct?

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Mathew Snyder wrote:
> I'm moving my devel database to a second server and separating it from the
> server RT actually runs on.  However, after doing so and updating the
> RT_SiteConfig.pm I get the following:
> 
> error:   	RT couldn't store your session.
> This may mean that that the directory '/usr/local/rt3/var/session_data' isn't
> writable or a database table is missing or corrupt.
> 
> context:  	
> ...  	
> 86:  	};
> 87:  	undef $cookies{$cookiename};
> 88:  	}
> 89:  	else {
> 90:  	die loc("RT couldn't store your session.") . "\n"
> 91:  	. loc(
> 92:  	"This may mean that that the directory '[_1]' isn't writable or a database
> table is missing or corrupt.",
> 93:  	$RT::MasonSessionDir
> 94:  	)
> ...  	
> code stack:  	/usr/local/rt3/local/html/Elements/SetupSessionCookie:90
> /usr/local/rt3/share/html/autohandler:120
> 
> I've verified the permissions and ownership for the directory.  What else might
> I need to look at?
>