How to set alternative session.save_path ?

Question

On my shared hosting the php configuration seems to be misconfigured. The /tmp folder, where sessions are saved is full daily. So nobody can login on some of my sites. Support is on holiday I think, since 2 weeks they did not resolve that.

The /temp folder i cant access as it is one level "above" my webspace. Now I could save the sessions on my webspace and delete them through a cronjob.

Question is, where to set another session path and are there other things I have to change as well.

Answer 1

I'm not sure but maybe this helps you: .............. you could try to modify the path by the following command:........... session_save_path(realpath(dirname($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . '/../session')); ...................Or you could try the ini_set(...) command................See http://php.net/manual/de/function.session-save-path.php for more details...............I'm not sure where to put this - most probably at the beginning of index.php ............Hopefully that works.

Comments

Strange thing: I've answered this  with my mobile phone and the answer field deleted all carriage returns...     so this is why I've added all these .......... to make it more readable.
Strange....

And even more: this comment field accepts my
Carriage
Returns.

Hmmm...

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Great,

it worked by using:

ini_set ('session.save_path', '/your/relative/path/for/your/sessions');

directly after:

define('QA_BASE_DIR', dirname(empty($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) ? __FILE__ : $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']).'/');

in index.php .

Will test around now !

Thank You snoopy, very helpful hint !

monk333