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Asked: 2026-06-05T04:30:08+00:00

So, I looked through different posts and other resources and I still cannot make

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So, I looked through different posts and other resources and I still cannot make it work.
Seems basic and common but I am lost.
Here is my code.
Page “test_start.php”:

<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
    <p>Click <a href="test_script.php">here</a></p>
</body>
</html>

Page “test_script.php”:

<?php
    session_start();
    $_SESSION['passed']="My text!";
    header("Location: test_ultima.php");
?>

Page “test_ultima.php”:

<?php session_start(); ?>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Something</title>
</head>
<body>
    <p>This text shows, so redirect worked!</p>
    <?php
        echo "<p>Result isset: ".isset($_SESSION['passed'])."</p>";
        echo "<p>I passed:".$_SESSION['passed']."</p>";
    ?>
</body>
</html>

When I click on the link I see the following:

This text shows, so redirect worked!
Result isset:
I passed:

What am I doing wrong?
Please, if you can, also explein why and how it shall work…

Added Note: The first file is .php because in the end it will contain also some php code… this is obviously an example to first make it work and understand how it works…

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  1. Editorial Team

    From the comment by OP:

    session_start() [function.session-start]: open(C:\PHP\sessions\sess_87ruc3n1gb0e5ivlsfurgr0nr0, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\missione-berna.ch\test_ultima.php on line 3

    This means that either the directory to which PHP tries to write the sessions doesn’t exist or it just doesn’t have the permission to read/write in this directory.

    So you first need to check out whether the directory actually exists. If it exists you should check the permissions of the apache (or other webservice) user on that directory.

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