# Permission denied creating ruby sessions **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 1, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/permission-denied-creating-ruby-sessions/56617 "2006-04-01T20:06:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![will](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@will](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/will)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/permission-denied-creating-ruby-sessions/56617/1 "2006-04-01T20:06:29Z")
My code was working, and I upgraded to Rails 1.1, and it seemed to be working after that, but then I suddenly started seeing the following error: Permission denied - /home/will/office/public/…/config/…/tmp/sessions//ruby\_sess.c7da2e7df8df77df /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/pstore.rb:289:in `initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/pstore.rb:289:in`transaction’ /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi/session/pstore.rb:71:in `initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi/session.rb:273:in`initialize’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action\_controller/cgi\_process.rb:111:in `session' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action_controller/cgi_process.rb:141:in`stale\_session\_check!’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action\_controller/cgi\_process.rb:107:in `session' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action_controller/base.rb:885:in`assign\_shortcuts\_without\_flash’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action\_controller/flash.rb:141:in `assign_shortcuts' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action_controller/base.rb:373:in`process\_without\_filters’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action\_controller/filters.rb:364:in `process_without_session_management_support' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:117:in`process’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.0/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in `dispatch’ /home/will/office/public/dispatch.cgi:10Loaded suite /home/will/office/public/dispatch.cgi Started Finished in 0.000278 seconds. 0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors * * * No session file ever gets created in /tmp, but the permissions should be fine – /tmp is writable. I am running apache2 on gentoo linux and I have the problem whether or not I use cgi or fast\_cgi, but I don’t have the problem when I use webbrick. Has anyone else seen this? I am struggling. ---
**Author:** ![will](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@will](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/will)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/permission-denied-creating-ruby-sessions/56617/2 "2006-04-01T23:16:30Z")
Will wrote: > My code was working, and I upgraded to Rails 1.1, and it seemed to be > working after that, but then I suddenly started seeing the following > error: > > Permission denied - > /home/will/office/public/…/config/…/tmp/sessions//ruby\_sess.c7da2e7df8df77df * * * > No session file ever gets created in /tmp, but the permissions should be > fine – /tmp is writable. > > I am running apache2 on gentoo linux and I have the problem whether or > not I use cgi or fast\_cgi, but I don’t have the problem when I use > webbrick. > > Has anyone else seen this? I am struggling. Rails 1.1 (by default, maybe this is configurable) is writing sessions to $RAILS\_ROOT/tmp/sessions not /tmp/sessions. The first time I ran rails update this directory was not created, although it was the second time. Anyway, create /home/will/office/public/…/config/…/tmp/sessions with correct permissions and you should be ok. – Ray ---
**Author:** ![will](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@will](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/will)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/permission-denied-creating-ruby-sessions/56617/3 "2006-04-23T18:48:09Z")
it’s a hack, but set the permissions on directories within /tmp to be extremely loose…i.e. chmod 777 \* ---
**Author:** ![will](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@will](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/will)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/permission-denied-creating-ruby-sessions/56617/4 "2006-05-10T05:35:27Z")
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