sessions dropping

[Shawn Wilson]

Hi,

I've been having some trouble with sessions. I have a pw-protected section of
my website where members can log in and use tools to edit their websites. The
problem is sessions seem to disappear at random. I can't seem to isolate a
particular set of circumstances under which this happens.

I realize this is a vague problem, but does anyone have any tips as to how I
could go about isolating the cause? I'm open to wild guesses :o)

session.cache_e xpire 180 180
session.cache_l imiter nocache nocache
session.cookie_ lifetime 0 0
session.gc_maxl ifetime 1440 1440
session.gc_prob ability 1 1
session.referer _check no value no value
session.save_pa th /tmp /tmp
session.use_coo kies On On
session.use_onl y_cookies Off Off
session.use_tra ns_sid Off Off

I'm using PHP 4.3.0 on Linux/Apache, testing most with IE 6.

TIA,
Shawn

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Shawn Wilson
shawn@glassgian t.com

http://www.glassgiant.com

[John Wellesz]

Re: sessions dropping

On 02 avr. 2004, Sir Shawn Wilson <shawn@glassgia nt.com> claimed in
news:406D6AC1.1 A112DAA@glassgi ant.com:
[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I've been having some trouble with sessions. I have a pw-protected
> section of my website where members can log in and use tools to edit
> their websites. The problem is sessions seem to disappear at random.
> I can't seem to isolate a particular set of circumstances under which
> this happens.
>
> I realize this is a vague problem, but does anyone have any tips as to
> how I could go about isolating the cause? I'm open to wild guesses :o)
>
> session.gc_maxl ifetime 1440 1440[/color]


Don't your session files disappear after 1440 seconds of non use? (mtime is
used to test)

Also make sure session.save_pa th is not set to a path (default is /tmp)
where files are autaumatically deleted after some time...

I strongly advise you to read http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php


John