I'm running into a problem covered in the stickied topic "First Admin login" problem where once I revert back to a login screen anytime I click on something

My problem is some of the solutions proposed such as:

"what you need to do is, have a .htaccess file in your limesurvey and limesurvey/admin folder with the following line

php_value session.auto_start 0

Next, you need to change option "AllowOverride" to as follows in httpd.conf"

and



My php.ini has the following setting:

session.auto_start = 1

Setting session.auto_start to 0 solves this problem and I have added this information in limesurvey wiki too under
"Any action in admin page will return you to login screen" section


and

I had the same problem (first admin login returns you to login page), fixed it by editing the php.ini file burried deep in my web-hosts cgi management / php scripting page.
the Limesurvey wiki describes the changes here: docs.limesurvey.org/tiki-index.php?page=Installation+FAQ
What worked for me was changing the "upload_tmp_dir =/" under the "file uploads" section of the php.ini file to "upload_tmp_dir =/public_html/limesurvey/upload".

Correct me if I'm wrong but I can't find the files php.ini, httpd.conf, etc. I'm on a webserver and it also seems like these solutions were meant for people with their own individual servers. Help me out here in laymen's terms?

Hi,

If you're on a hosted service where you don't have much control over the server, then you really ought to speak to the technical support for the server. If the problem is caused by session.auto_start = 1, then they ought to turn it off anyway, as that's pretty non-standard.

I suggest you send them this page, and ask for their opinion.

The first couple of quotes are things you can do if you're not on your own server. The ".htaccess" file, for example, can just be created in your route directory, and if your server is configured to allow you to make such changes, then it lets you have some control over your own instance of the server.

Jason