Re: Session expires randomly

> On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Mauricio Pellegrini wrote: > > > Hi, I have this problem , When I start a Session everything seems to be > > ok but sometimes with no reason the session vanishes. > > > > All settings are default , I mean session_cache_expire is 180 min. > > I understand that this setting should make sessions last for at least 3 > > hours but in my case it seems not to be true since the real duration > > varies from 20 minutes to an hour I think the parameter you need to look at in php.ini is session.gc_maxlifetime. It sets the session lifetime, not session_cache_expire. The default lifetime is probably 1440 seconds, roughly 20 minutes, so the behavior you are seeing is completely normal - it's all working as it should. Kirk