Architecture / Installation

Posted by caithion 26 Dec 2019 19:58 GMT-0000 posts: 27

Thank you for your suggestions, Rick. I was not able to take the time off to tackle this problem again until this month. I was never able to successfully upgrade from 18.1.

I am now attempting to upgrade to tikiwiki 20.0 with the same looping problem back to the "Tiki Installer Security Precaution" page as last February.

Could you give me an idea on how to do the two things that you suggested?

(1) The session data is default stored in a /tmp folder in the main directory that the tikiwiki folders and files are in, is that correct? Or does it need to be above that in the root directory of the server? In the main directory I did not see such a folder, although there is a /temp folder. I tried also creating a /tmp folder based on this page's information (https://doc.tiki.org/General-Settings). Would user and group read and write permissions be enough, or does it need public read and write permission as well? I tried adding such a folder in both locations with public permissions and no change to the loop. I also made the /temp directory read and write permissions public.

(2) How would I change session data storage to the database instead of a file? Is this something I would need to change in the php.ini file?

Thank you for your time and help,
Jen

(As an addendum, I usually use FTP rather than shell access and have to re-teach myself the basic commands every time I need to use shell because I just don't use Unix or programming. But if it's better for me to try an install or something using shell commands, please let me know.)