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How to use a custom session folder

Sean Bailey
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Introduction

 

cPanel cleans sessions based on the default session naming format sess_*, if a user needs to increase the default value, they will need to use a custom session directory. If you wish to use a custom garbage collection time you will need to use a custom session folder.

 

Procedure

 

You will first need to create a directory as the user to hold the sessions:

 

[sean2@test2 ~]$ mkdir sessions -v
mkdir: created directory ‘sessions’
[sean2@test2 ~]$

 

After creating the new sessions directory update your php.ini for the user using the MultiPHP INI Editor:

 

session.save_path = "/home/example/sessions"

 

If you use a custom session path cPanel will no longer manage the sessions, and you will need to use a custom script to clean up the session files.

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