Re: Sessions and redundant servers

On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Daniel Baldoni wrote: > G'day folks, > > Here's a theoretical question for those of you using PHP's inbuilt session > facilities... > > How do you "keep" your variables across redundant servers? Or, > isn't anybody out there hosting PHP-based services on grouped > servers? You are right, by default PHP stores session data in /tmp, but there are ways to change this. First of all, rsync seems to be the least reliable method, nfs seems better (i would not try it though). I have seen session-handling implemented with postgresql (and i think porting it on mysql isn't that hard...). You may want to take a look at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php Also see http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=php+session, there are a few implementations of db storage for sessions. Needless to say, having sessions stored on a database makes them available across a cluster. georgeb