Peter's Blog 3.8.2004

drupal vs squirrelmail

Installed squirrelmail and it refused to run, giving the error::

  session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module

Studying the Bug List I saw this comment

  Hi,
  had the same error, added the following line before starting the
  session:

    ini_set('session.save_handler', 'files');

  this fixed it in my case...

Well, one of the steps for installing Drupal is to set

  session.save_handler = user

in php.ini. Looks like a dichotomy to me, 'files' != 'user'.

So I changed the squirrelmail file 'global.php' as follows

  
  ini_set('session.save_handler', 'files');
  session_start();

and problem solved.