MAGMI session_write_close Product Import Error

Question

I'm having troubles setting up MAGMI on my site, every time I got to import products I am shown this error:

Warning: session_start(): open(/var/lib/php/session/sess_a80ks0ag182lknvd8bfc052qe6, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in /httpdocs/magmi/web/head.php on line 6

Warning: session_write_close(): open(/var/lib/php/session/sess_a80ks0ag182lknvd8bfc052qe6, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in /httpdocs/magmi/web/magmi_import_run.php on line 5 Warning: session_write_close(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/var/lib/php/session) in /httpdocs/magmi/web/magmi_import_run.php on line 5

And products will then not import either, giving me a message saying "1 error(s) found" but not displaying the drop down box when I try to see what error I am getting.

If anyone could shed some light on this I would greatly appreciate it!

Many thanks,

Answer 1

The error message is quite clear. The user running Magmi does not have the permission to create sessions to the current session_save_path for PHP.

You can address this by reading over the solutions covered in How can I fix the Permission error when I call session_start()?