Sessions clean up

netfrugal

This is mainly a question about the garbage collection process that is set in the php.ini file.

I'm specifying the sessions directory in a different place than what the php.ini specifies. But this is for only one site.

Does the garbage collector handle that new directory too? Or will I need to make some adjustments so the garbage collector also cleans that new directory, as well as the directory in php.ini?

Hope I make sense.

And here's the code I am using:

session_save_path('/sessions/'); 
session_name("yeppers");
session_start();

netfrugal

I see people using this: ini_set("session.gc_maxlifetime", "1800");

From what I am reading, this should clean out the sessions/ directory of any session that has been inactive for more than 1800 seconds.

So far I am not seeing the desired result. The session stays active, and stays inside the sessions/ directory on the server too.

Am I missing something?

bradgrafelman

The gc should handle that directory as well, but note that it will also follow the session.gc_probability and session.gc_divisor directives as expected. So, what values did you set those two directives two while you were testing?

Weedpacket

netfrugal wrote:
From what I am reading, this should clean out the sessions/ directory of any session that has been inactive for more than 1800 seconds.

No, it means that a session file becomes eligible for deletion after 1800 seconds. The setting doesn't control when the garbage collector runs.