Debian based systems Session killed at 30 minutes in special cron, how to override?

Question

Have been pulling out my hair trying to find out why my sessions are being terminated/killed/destroyed at 30 minutes. Well it looks like Debian based systems have a special

Answer 1

Edit the file /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime

The value should be in seconds. This file will actually also check your php.ini so I don't know why it wasn't working for you.