I am having a strange issue. I cannot login even with fresh installation. The application does not seem able to save the session. Any insights on this? Is there an apache config required?

Thanks, George

What version of LS are you using, what version of apache, PHP? This is all to vague?

Thank you for the prompt response.

I am running:
- Limesurvey Version 2.05
- Apache 2.2.31 (Unix)
- PHP 5.5.37

Minimal PHP version for LimeSurvey 3.0 is 5.5.9 (ubuntu LTS version) or 5.6 (PHP general version).

See:
php.net/supported-versions.php

LouisGac wrote: Minimal PHP version for LimeSurvey 3.0 is 5.5.9 (ubuntu LTS version) or 5.6 (PHP general version).

The poster is stating Limesurvey Version 2.05. Not sure what "even with a fresh installation" means.


@pigphish: You seem to have more than one installation. Is the fresh installation the same version as your main installation? If you cannot login to both installations of LimeSurvey it might be related to an change in the hosting environment. What kind of hosting is used? Who e.g. updates PHP? And what database server (version) is used?

also most of the time it's a problem related to SSL (https vs http)

I have the same issue, installed under https, server Centos 7.3, Apache 2.4, php 7.1... never been able to access as admin after fresh installation.
What about http vs https?

Thanks for all the help!

For me it turned out to be a bad setting in Php.ini:
session.save_path

My path was pointing to a non-existent directory. Once I fixed that it was working. Might be good to post an error to apache or somewhere so it's easy to find.

hey pigphish, could you add your solution to the problem in the troubleshooting section of the manual please?
manual.limesurvey.org/Troubleshooting

it could help further users facing the same problem