Re: [PHP] Keeping sessions

Ok, you both are right but not what I need because web servers is for shared hosting with PHP then each user choose the way to develop their apps. Then one user maybe store sessions in DB but another one not. This should be on Apache or OS side. It's because I talk about ldirector, LVS and so

I know this is a PHP and not an Apache list but maybe someone is doing this with web hosting...

cheers!

Stut escribió:
Richard Heyes wrote:
Stut wrote:
Jorge González wrote:

In a web server cluster, how do you do guys keep the php sessions? I mean, with Apache and mod_proxy_balanced you could have a cluster with apache backend webservers but If a user is logged into an php app then this user goes always to the same backend server and if that server goes down then the session is invalid.

How to deal with sessions?

Several options exist, but the most common is to store session data in a database that can be accessed by all of the web servers. Alternatives include using memcached but recently I read something that suggested that can be problematic.

I believe the cluster support in Zend Platform includes this functionality, so depending on your budget that may also be an option.

Just a note: you could have either one of the web servers acting as the "session" server which the other web servers use or, if need be, a dedicated "session" server. I wouldn't imagine you'd need that though unless your site's really busy.

What do you mean by "session server"? How are you accessing the session data on another server?

-Stut

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