php session_start() permisson denied

Question

PHP Notice: session_start(): ps_files_cleanup_dir: opendir(/var/lib/php5) failed: Permission denied

I am getting it in my apache error log

/var/lib/php5 owner and group is root, so is it fine to change the group to www-data, since its on a production server please help me out

Answer 1

Yes. It's fine. Webserver have to write somewhere sessions files. You can change this path in the php.ini file.