General['session_save_handler']) || $config->General['session_save_handler'] === 'files'; } /** * Start the session * * @param array|bool $options An array of configuration options; the auto-start (bool) setting is ignored * @return void */ public static function start($options = false) { if (Common::isPhpCliMode() || self::$sessionStarted || (defined('PIWIK_ENABLE_SESSION_START') && !PIWIK_ENABLE_SESSION_START) ) { return; } self::$sessionStarted = true; // use cookies to store session id on the client side @ini_set('session.use_cookies', '1'); // prevent attacks involving session ids passed in URLs @ini_set('session.use_only_cookies', '1'); // advise browser that session cookie should only be sent over secure connection if (ProxyHttp::isHttps()) { @ini_set('session.cookie_secure', '1'); } // advise browser that session cookie should only be accessible through the HTTP protocol (i.e., not JavaScript) @ini_set('session.cookie_httponly', '1'); // don't use the default: PHPSESSID $sessionName = defined('PIWIK_SESSION_NAME') ? PIWIK_SESSION_NAME : 'PIWIK_SESSID'; @ini_set('session.name', $sessionName); // proxies may cause the referer check to fail and // incorrectly invalidate the session @ini_set('session.referer_check', ''); $currentSaveHandler = ini_get('session.save_handler'); $config = Config::getInstance(); if (self::isFileBasedSessions()) { // Note: this handler doesn't work well in load-balanced environments and may have a concurrency issue with locked session files // for "files", use our own folder to prevent local session file hijacking $sessionPath = self::getSessionsDirectory(); // We always call mkdir since it also chmods the directory which might help when permissions were reverted for some reasons Filesystem::mkdir($sessionPath); @ini_set('session.save_handler', 'files'); @ini_set('session.save_path', $sessionPath); } else if ($config->General['session_save_handler'] === 'dbtable' || in_array($currentSaveHandler, array('user', 'mm')) ) { // We consider these to be misconfigurations, in that: // - user - we can't verify that user-defined session handler functions have already been set via session_set_save_handler() // - mm - this handler is not recommended, unsupported, not available for Windows, and has a potential concurrency issue $db = Db::get(); $config = array( 'name' => Common::prefixTable('session'), 'primary' => 'id', 'modifiedColumn' => 'modified', 'dataColumn' => 'data', 'lifetimeColumn' => 'lifetime', 'db' => $db, ); $saveHandler = new DbTable($config); if ($saveHandler) { self::setSaveHandler($saveHandler); } } // garbage collection may disabled by default (e.g., Debian) if (ini_get('session.gc_probability') == 0) { @ini_set('session.gc_probability', 1); } try { Zend_Session::start(); register_shutdown_function(array('Zend_Session', 'writeClose'), true); } catch (Exception $e) { Log::warning('Unable to start session: ' . $e->getMessage()); $enableDbSessions = ''; if (DbHelper::isInstalled()) { $enableDbSessions = "
If you still experience issues after trying these changes, we recommend that you enable database session storage."; } $pathToSessions = Filechecks::getErrorMessageMissingPermissions(Filesystem::getPathToPiwikRoot() . '/tmp/sessions/'); $pathToSessions = SettingsPiwik::rewriteTmpPathWithHostname($pathToSessions); $message = sprintf("Error: %s %s %s\n
Debug: the original error was \n%s
", Piwik::translate('General_ExceptionUnableToStartSession'), $pathToSessions, $enableDbSessions, $e->getMessage() ); Piwik_ExitWithMessage($message); } } /** * Returns the directory session files are stored in. * * @return string */ public static function getSessionsDirectory() { $path = PIWIK_USER_PATH . '/tmp/sessions'; return SettingsPiwik::rewriteTmpPathWithHostname($path); } }