Re: PHP web clusters and session information

> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:39 AM,  <markw@...> wrote:
>> Are there any admins/architects that have multiple web servers using PHP
>>  and are sharing sessions.
>>
>>  I have an open source project I've been trying to get going for a while
>>  now and I'd like to solve the major issues for this type of deployment.
>>
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> Yes, you have two options.  Either use file sessions and store the
> sessions on one of the servers and mount that directory via nfs to the
> other servers.  But I recommend against this.  Or re-write your code
> to store the sessions in the database, that way no matter what
> database you hit, you'll be pulling the session data from the db.
>
> There are tons of PHP examples out there of how to write your own db
> sessions using session_set_save_handler
> http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.session-set-save-handler.php  Or
> what I did was to use PEAR::Http_Session2
> http://pear.php.net/packages.php?catpid=11&catname=HTTP