PHP configuration to enable sessions

Question

On our development server, sessions handling works fine. On our production server, it doesnt.

phpinfo on the development server shows:

Answer 1

Taken from http://devzone.zend.com/article/141

There are a couple built-in options for storing session data. The session handler is set in the php.ini under the directive named

session.save_handler

sqlite Optionally, you can store session data in an sqlite database. To do so, use a configuration such as:

session.save_handler = sqlite
session.save_path = /tmp/phpsess.db

mm For high-performance session storage, you can store session data in memory with the mm shared-memory module. You'll need to compile php with the mm module support. Here is a tutorial to configure session handling with mm ( http://www.zend.com/tips/tips.php?id=164&single=1 ). Note that since session date is stored in RAM, you should consider it volatile data, and it's lost with power outage or a reboot.

Note: the link in the above tutorial is outdated. You can retrieve the mm module from the OSSP.org website.