PHP Sessions

So, some people might had noticed that you couldn’t log into the Llama for about a week or so. Seem that no one needed to “enable cookies”. Which is a stupid error message because the problem had nothing to do with cookies, domain or browser.

Seems like all PHP sessions are cached in a file and that whole PHP session directory was located in a temp directory. Then one of the virus scanners I was testing out last week deleted the temp PHP directory, giving PHP nowhere to write it’s sessions. Giving no one a session, hence, no login sessions.

I searched online and tried out different things that were suggested. Which is what you’re supposed to do. I actually RTFM. Then when I had enough. I blamed Nebulous. I finally ended up digging through log files, fun.

So, everything is back to normal.

What started this whole thing was that I ended up with a trojan, some Pinfi.Pirate.B, I have no idea how I got it. I’ve must of had it for awhile. It attaches itself to .exe’s. My main clue was my hard drive was always full, and then CCleaner started crashing. I suggest you scan your computer if your drive is full. Read about it here, plus it has the removal tool.

http://www.bitdefender.com.au/VIRUS-1000025-au–Win32.Parite.A-B-C.html

I’d just run it anyways even if you think your computer is fine, you’ll be surprised. I had like 200MB left on my drive. I couldn’t download anything cause the temp directories would fill up the drive. I’m now back to 1.5GB free. My main drive is 10GB. Hope this helps someone, anyone.