Posted by Kirk.Johnson on 09/02/05 20:20

> On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Mauricio Pellegrini wrote:
>
> > Hi, I have this problem , When I start a Session everything seems to
be
> > ok but sometimes with no reason the session vanishes.
> >
> > All settings are default , I mean session_cache_expire is 180 min.
> > I understand that this setting should make sessions last for at least
3
> > hours but in my case it seems not to be true since the real duration
> > varies from 20 minutes to an hour

I think the parameter you need to look at in php.ini is
session.gc_maxlifetime. It sets the session lifetime, not
session_cache_expire. The default lifetime is probably 1440 seconds,
roughly 20 minutes, so the behavior you are seeing is completely normal -
it's all working as it should.

Kirk

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