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Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie

Experts,

I have moved a new site from a development server to the live server and am getting problems (not present on dev server).

PHP seems to be complaining about the use of session_start() function. I have searched the web looking for answers and each thread seems to imply it is due to having space in php file before calling the function, however, i definitely dont have any space....

http://www.claibon.co.uk/february13/login.php

Here is the top half of the code:

<?php
session_start();
if (isset($_GET['task'])) {
	$task=$_GET['task'];	
} else {
    	$task="login";
}
?>
<!doctype html>  
<html lang="en">  
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8" />
  <title>Claibon Recruitment</title> 
  <meta name="description" content="Claibon Recruitment" />
  <meta name="author" content="Sure Media">
  <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Source+Sans+Pro:200,300,400' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
  <link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1" />
  <!--[if lt IE 9]>  
  <script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>  
  <![endif]-->
  <link rel="shortcut icon" href="flavicon.ico" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="container" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Organization">
	<header>
		<div id="contact">
			GET IN TOUCH:

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Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated

Easynow

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Chris Harte

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Dean OBrien

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Thanks for comments.

It appears it was indeed down to encoding.

I confess to know very little about character encoding.. i add the meta tag to state utf-8 and save as utf-8 in notepad normally.

The only way i was able to get this working just now was to save as ANSI... any ideas why? should i change character encoding tags within doc?

Will close and award points very shortly.

Thanks for solution.
Regards
Easynow

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Dean OBrien

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Thanks for the info guys