PHP sessions not being saved in memcache

Question

Running an application using php 5.4 on AWS using the Amazon Linux.

PHP version is PHP 5.4.28. memcache lib installed from the AWS repo is php54-pecl-memcache-3.0.8-1.11

Answer 1

Both of the major memcache PHP PECL extensions have session handlers. Either will require you to install a PECL module before use.

The Memcache PECL extension session handler is enabled with the following in php.ini:

session.save_handler = "memcache"
session.save_path = "tcp://memcacheServerAddressHere:11211?persistent=1&weight=2&timeout=2&retry_interval=10"

The Memcached PECL extension session handler is enabled with the following in php.ini:

session.save_handler = "memcached"
session.save_path = "memcacheServerAddressHere:11211"

Note that the Memcache extension appears to allow more configuration of the Memcache environment.