Posted by Michael Caplan on 09/21/05 20:08

Hi,

I have a rather peculiar problem with session.gc_maxlifetime local
settings not being respected under certain circumstances. In order to
ensure that sessions created for our application would have a max
lifetime longer than the default 24 minutes, we cranked
session.gc_maxlifetime in an .htaccess file to 4 hours (local value).
However, our sessions where still being clean up after 24 minutes. I
validated through phpinfo() that it was actually picking up the local
setting, which it was. I also noticed in my testing that if I reduced
the session.gc_maxlifetime local value to less than the master value, my
sessions would be cleaned up in accordance to the local value.

When we changed the master value to 4 hours, we are no longer having our
sessions cleaned up within 24 minutes. So, it appears that the local
value of session.gc_maxlifetime is only being respected if it is less
than that of the master value.

Has anyone else come across this problem as well? FYI, we are running
PHP 4.4 on debian sarge.

Thanks,

Michael

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