Zend framework session expires prematurely

Question

I\'m using Zend Framework for PHP and handling sessions with the Zend_Session module. This is what I have in my Initializer (or bootstrap):

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Answer 1

Are there other PHP applications running on the server?

Assuming you're using the standard, file-based, session handler, PHP will store all sessions in the same place (typically /tmp).

If you have some other script on the server using the default session_gc_maxlifetime settings, it may be eating your session files.

The easiest fix to try is to configure PHP to store session files for this application someplace special -- that way other apps running on the server will never accidently "clean up" session data from this app.

Try creating a directory like /tmp/myAppPhpSessions (or whatever), and adding:

ini_set('session.save_path','/tmp/myAppPhpSessions');
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 864000);

at the very top of your bootstrap file.

Make sure session.auto_start is off in php.ini