CakePHP Error: Unable to configure the session, setting session.auto_start failed

Question

I\'m getting this error:

Error: [CakeSessionException] Unable to configure the session, setting session.auto_start failed.

I\'m using Cakephp 2.2.4.

Answer 1

Andriy Struk's answer is correct. He said: So you have 3 main options: upgrade CakePHP, downgrade PHP, or use standard PHP sessions.

But there's a 4th option, you can simply comment out a single line in /lib/Cake/Model/Datasource/CakeSession.php (around line 557):

// 'session.auto_start' => 0,

That stops Cake calling ini_set() on that setting, and prevents the fatal error.