Re: PHP web clusters and session information

["markw-4" <user=5@nabble.blu.org>]

 > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:39 AM,  <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>> Are there any admins/architects that have multiple web servers using PHP 
>>  and are sharing sessions. 
>> 
>>  I have an open source project I've been trying to get going for a while 
>>  now and I'd like to solve the major issues for this type of deployment. 
>> 
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> 
> Yes, you have two options.  Either use file sessions and store the 
> sessions on one of the servers and mount that directory via nfs to the 
> other servers.  But I recommend against this.  Or re-write your code 
> to store the sessions in the database, that way no matter what 
> database you hit, you'll be pulling the session data from the db. 
> 
> There are tons of PHP examples out there of how to write your own db 
> sessions using session_set_save_handler 
> http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.session-set-save-handler.php  Or 
> what I did was to use PEAR::Http_Session2 
> http://pear.php.net/packages.php?catpid=11&amp;catname=HTTP