Re: Session support in a web farm

On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Andy Ward wrote: > Hi all! > > I looked around for a little bit in the manual and on the bug database, and didn't find > anything about this, so here goes... > > Is there a way to have php4 on multiple servers *safely* share the session data directory? > These servers would be in a web farm, all load balanced at the request or connection level > (haven't decided on that yet). We would rather not use session-based load balancing, for > scalability reasons. Can this be done? Two possibilites: 1. NFS (your server and clients have to handle file locking properly) 2. Any DBMS which can talk over TCP/IP The session module allows you to implement the storage mechanism in PHP. Such user-level implementations can be done for every DBMS which is supported by PHP. - Sascha