PHPMyAdmin: session_start(): open(SESSION_FILE, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13)

[seezee]

Can't login to PHPMyAdmin. Permissions are correct: directory & files owned by www-data, /var/www/phpmyadmin/tmp exists with permission 0755.

The full error is:

Error during session start; please check your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly. Also ensure that cookies are enabled in your browser.

session_start(): open(SESSION_FILE, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13)

session_start(): Failed to read session data: files (path: )

Loaded config file is /usr/local/lsws/lsphp80/etc/php/8.0/litespeed/php.ini. I've tried it with and without setting the session.save_path to "/tmp".

 

[seezee]

UPDATE: I performed a system reboot for unrelated reasons and now it works. Marking this as closed.