Sessions Failover with PHP-memcache against memcached

Question

Colleagues!

I\'m running php 5.3 (5.3.8) with memcache (2.2.6) client library (http://pecl.php.net/package/memcache) to deal with memcached server. My goal is to have f

Answer 1

I would like to thank everybody who participated this question, the answer is the following: in reality memcache (not memcached) as session handler supports comma separated servers as the session.save_path, moreover it supports failover. The error mentioned above Session start failed. Original message: session_start(): Server 10.0.10.111 (tcp 11211) failed with: Connection refused (111) had only 8th (Notice) level. In fact engine just informs you about the fact that one of the servers is unavailable (which is logical, as otherwise how will you know?) and then successfully connects to the second server and using it.

So all of the misunderstanding has been caused by weak documentation, memcache/memcached confusions and paranoid (E_ALL) settings of my custom error handler. In the meantime the issue has been resolved by ignoring notices referring to error Connection refused (111) in the session establishing context