Unable to upgrade or clean install with 2.2.2

Greetings,

I'm attempting to upgrade and/or rebuild an existing shop. I've tried with and without a clean install using Remi-based PHP 8.4 and 8.5 on a fresh Rocky 10 install. In all cases, I get "Problems with session support" in the installer and only find this session error in the ZCInstall logs

 -- checkInitialSession
FAILED
(
    [sessionName] => zenInstallerId
)

I can't find anything in any other logs and am at a loss.

I moved a snapshot of the existing cart across to the same instance, and it works as expected, suggesting the PHP config is valid and complete.

dbolack:

Greetings,

I'm attempting to upgrade and/or rebuild an existing shop. I've tried with and without a clean install using Remi-based PHP 8.4 and 8.5 on a fresh Rocky 10 install. In all cases, I get "Problems with session support" in the installer and only find this session error in the ZCInstall logs

 -- checkInitialSession
FAILED
(
    [sessionName] => zenInstallerId
)

I can't find anything in any other logs and am at a loss.

I moved a snapshot of the existing cart across to the same instance, and it works as expected, suggesting the PHP config is valid and complete.

i think your test is flawed; for a couple of reasons.

the primary being there are enough people out there that have successfully installed 2.2.2 with no problems, and we would have heard about a problem with the installer if there in fact was one.

the second reason is that you have a fresh Rocky 10 install. the odds that you have properly configured said system to run ZC are low, especially given the fact that ZC is reporting an error.

you can see the session test here in this section of code.

you are not able to start a session.

i would venture that your session.save_path does not have the proper permissions for the user running your web page serving software, ie apache or something else. i could be wrong, but that is where i would start.

this google search gives a few ideas.

your snapshot of the your previous cart may have overridden the master php.ini file resulting in a proper ability to create sessions. or your test of the cart may have not been thorough enough to test for the sessions. who knows.

system administration is not for the feint of heart. but this problem clearly looks like a sysAdmin issue to me.

good luck.