July 2009
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PHP sessions timeout too soon, no matter how you...
The scenario
You’re running Debian Linux or Ubuntu Linux. You want PHP sessions to last longer than the default 1440 seconds (24 minutes). So you do this:
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 10800); # 3 hours
With this setting, sessions should remain active for at least three hours, as long as users don’t close their browser.1
But no matter what you do, sessions keep getting deleted after...