The site is on a shared hosting service by IWeb. The site has stopped answering every time the script does a session_start(). It was working before and the code hasn’t changed.
I am pretty sure its a server problem since IWeb is working on some other bug we had and they are that incompetent. But, as usual they ask for all sorts of proofs before they actually investigate.
So I created a a script that contains ONLY this:
ini_set('display_errors',1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
session_start();
And sure enough if I run it I get the internal server error and nothing in the error_logs.
My question is what could be causing this? Permissions on the session folder? We are on shared hosting, so we can’t change anything server side.
Is there anything I can tell the IWeb technician that will convince them to fix the issue?
So in the end it was indeed the host provider. I opened a ticket with them and they fixed it “eventually”.
Nothing changed on my side so it was a server issue. I do not have the details of what was fixed but I am pretty sure it had something to do with permissions on the /tmp folder.