So I've had a few problems getting PHP to run on my iPage hosting. It turns out there was a problem on their end getting the session.save_path to actually save in the php.ini. I put in a support ticket and they sent me this:
"We are sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. We have verified your issue and the issue is with the design. Due to this reason, session.save_pass is set as '4;/hermes/phpsession' in php.ini file or it doesn't take updates. However, this does not affect your website in any way. PHP session functionality should work fine without any issues with this session path. "
So does this mean that I now have to create a separate directory and work around this location? I'm getting pretty frustrated because from what I understood about cpanel hosting, php "just ran" and at the moment it just displays the code. I've found a few posts here with others who had similar issues, but they all referenced changing the session.save_path, but as you can see I cant do that, and the knowledge base on iPage is a mess.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!