Title: Error preventing website loading
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Error preventing website loading

 *  Resolved [Evaldaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evaldaz/)
 * (@evaldaz)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-preventing-website-loading/)
 * Hey, I had no problems with custom sidebars up to this point. My website [http://www.evaldaz.com](http://www.evaldaz.com)
   won’t load when entering it directly from browser address bar. If i am following
   links from google search or my wp admin zone – everything is fine.
 * So, here’s the error i am receiving:
 * Warning: session_start(): open(/tmp/sess_h9uon6r0flv21d7l1dgtoeeja6, O_RDWR) 
   failed: Permission denied (13) in /home3/evaldaz/public_html/Evaldaz.com/wp-content/
   plugins/custom-sidebars/inc/external/wpmu-lib/functions-wpmulib.php on line 69
 * Any ideas how to solve this quickly? Or other wise I’ll have to remove this plugin
   and look for alternatives.. 🙁
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-sidebars/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-sidebars/)

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 *  [Predrag – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support1/)
 * (@wpmudev-support1)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-preventing-website-loading/#post-5403066)
 * Hi [@evaldaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evaldaz/),
 * Sorry to hear of the problem you are having.
 * >  Hey, I had no problems with custom sidebars up to this point. My website [http://www.evaldaz.com](http://www.evaldaz.com)
   > won’t load when entering it directly from browser address bar. If i am following
   > links from google search or my wp admin zone – everything is fine.
 * Are you using any pop up condition like “From a search engine”?
 * Try temporary removing all pop up conditions.
 * > So, here’s the error i am receiving:
   > Warning: session_start(): open(/tmp/sess_h9uon6r0flv21d7l1dgtoeeja6, O_RDWR)
   > failed: Permission denied (13) in /home3/evaldaz/public_html/Evaldaz.com/wp-
   > content/plugins/custom-sidebars/inc/external/wpmu-lib/functions-wpmulib.php
   > on line 69
 * This error occurs when you don’t have write permission to the /tmp directory 
   on your server which is used to write session data.
 * To resolve this issue try making /tmp folder on your server writable or use the
   solutions posted on the following replies to resolve it.
 * [http://stackoverflow.com/a/15407400](http://stackoverflow.com/a/15407400)
    [http://stackoverflow.com/a/6821576](http://stackoverflow.com/a/6821576)
 * Kind Regards,
    WPMU DEV
 *  [Zetona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zetona/)
 * (@zetona)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-preventing-website-loading/#post-5403223)
 * I just had the same problem after i switched to cgi mode via
    AddHandler php56-
   cgi .php in htaccess
 * The easy solution was to clear the cookies in my browser 🙂

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 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Zetona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zetona/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-preventing-website-loading/#post-5403223)
 * Status: resolved