Detect when session.save_handler set incorrectly
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	Aug 19 2004, 10:52 PM

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Sometimes PHP's session.save_handler is globally set to a weird value like
'user' which fails miserably when we try to do start_session().

We should detect odd settings and either return a sensible error message or
work around it by trying to set it correctly to 'files' when not using
$wgSessionInMemCache.

Version: 1.3.x
Severity: normal

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Reference: bz179

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 6:47 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Installer.

• bzimport set Reference to bz179.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• brion created this task.Aug 19 2004, 10:52 PM

Applied Ivan's patch to head. Needs to go in for 1.3.2 also.

Applied to REL1_3 branch.

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