Why Matomo and Zend_Session require the session extension alarm?

General questions
1

Hi all:
Why my matomo have a alarm after install (use freebsd13 nginx1.20.1 php8)

An error occurred

Matomo and Zend_Session require the session extension

It appears your PHP was compiled with

–disable-session

. To enjoy Matomo, you need PHP compiled without that configure option.

2

Hi,

As the warning says: Matomo can’t work without the php-session PHP module.

Normally, if you use e.g. Debian or Ubuntu, this module is always included in the default package, but whoever compiled the PHP binary you are using seems to explicitly excluded this module.

So to use Matomo, you need a PHP setup that includes the session module

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