RE: [PHP] Handling sessions between servers?

You can use NFS shares, but I've read that it is too slow for most situations. My suggestion would be to use a database and use a custom PHP session handler. A really good tutorial (including working code) on how to write custom PHP session handlers utilizing a database can be found at the following URL: http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/ying20000602.php3 I've tested this code and it worked fine utilzing MySQL. You can apply the same concepts to just about any datasource you want. Josh Hoover KnowledgeStorm, Inc. jhoover@knowledgestorm.com Searching for a new IT solution for your company? Need to improve your product marketing? Visit KnowledgeStorm at www.knowledgestorm.com to learn how we can simplify the process for you. KnowledgeStorm - Your IT Search Starts Here > From: Michael Champagne [mailto:mchampagne@capis.com] > > Is it possible to handle sessions with PHP between separate > web servers? We > have 2 Apache servers and would like to share session data > between them. If > we keep the session data on an NFS mounted drive -- will this > work? Would it > be better to write custom session handlers to store session > data in a database > accessible from both servers? It seems like this should be > possible, but I'm > not quite sure how to go about doing it. Also, this is on 2 separate > platforms. One is RedHat Linux 7.1 and the other server is > on AIX 4.3.3. > > Thanks in advance for any replies, > Mike