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Auto delete sessions on server

Posted on October 7, 2014

Hi. I don’t know why, but my sessions on my droplet just have 5 minutes of lifetime, when i access phppgadmin, phpmyadmin or my site, after 5 minutes the sessions being delete.



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By default php sessions usually timeout after 24 minutes. You can manually set the default timeout value in your php.ini by finding the session.gc_maxlifetime() variable and setting it (in seconds).

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