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Asked: 2026-05-28T00:58:15+00:00

I had a perfectly functional GoDaddy website (under development) before Christmas break. It has

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I had a perfectly functional GoDaddy website (under development) before Christmas break. It has not been changed. Today, I logged on and I have all these strange errors regarding sessions that weren’t there before.

To investigate, I made a new file and threw it on the site with the contents:

<?PHP
    session_start();
    echo "HELLO WORLD!";
?>

Navigating to this page in a freshly opened browser gives the following output:

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(/var/chroot/home/content/05/8547705/tmp/sess_m3uikb1qe6v5hsjir8ilsfa811, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in /home/content/05/8547705/html/try.php on line 2

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/05/8547705/html/try.php:2) in /home/content/05/8547705/html/try.php on line 2

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/content/05/8547705/html/try.php:2) in /home/content/05/8547705/html/try.php on line 2
HELLO WORLD!
Warning: Unknown: open(/var/chroot/home/content/05/8547705/tmp/sess_m3uikb1qe6v5hsjir8ilsfa811, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct () in Unknown on line 0

I don’t even know where to start with this – does anyone know what could have changed to make this basic file not work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Haven’t seen the first warning, but the others happen if the script sends headers or data before the call to session_start(). You can fix that by either:

    1) making sure that there’s no HTML or whitespace before session_start(), or,
    2) using output buffering (see ob_start() and ob_end_flush().

    With (2) you can start the session anytime during script execution; the buffering makes sure headers and response data are sent to the browser in the right order.

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