Re: Share Session Vars on 2 servers

From: Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 05:10:11 +0000
Subject: Re: Share Session Vars on 2 servers
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Hi Paul, If you have a single database between the 2 servers you could implement your own session handlers using PostgreSQL, Mysql or any other db for that matter. http://php.net/manual/en/function.session-set-save-handler.php Shouldn't be to difficult to do at all I imagine. Hope this helps! -------------------------------- - -- - - - Philip Murray - webmaster@open2view.com http://www.open2view.com - Open2View.com ------------- - -- - - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul R. Jackson" <paulj@psy.uq.edu.au> > I have developed a well tested password protection system using session > vars. We have 2 web servers with half of our pages on each (for reasons I > wont go into). What I need to be able to do is have a single login that > would then work on both servers. Which basically means sharing session vars > on 2 servers. > > Yes sure I could use just straight cookies because both servers live under > the same main domain but I have the system already in place and I dont want > to change it. > > I think it could be done by forcing the 2 servers to use the session temp > same directory with 'session.save_path' variable by using a NFS share. But > we would prefer not to do that. And in fact if that was the only solution we > would just do without. > > Is there soemthing else I can do. > > Paul > > >

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