Symfony2 sessions not working as expected / session keeps timing out

Question

My Symfony2 application displays a main page, and from there on it primarily uses AJAX requests to display content to the user via modals.

I\'ve noticed that after t

Answer 1

Travis T, I went the simplest route of all. I said

nano /etc/cron.d/php5

This opened the file showing the tremendously long crontab code that purges your session by default every 30 mins. The script was preceded by a #, and all I did was uncomment both lines by removing the #. So:

#  Look for and purge old sessions every 30 minutes
#  09, 39, *  * * *  root  @[ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [  etc 
   it's a long file.....]

I just removed the 2 #'s in front of Look and 09. That's it !