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Thanks for anyone who replied. Very much appreciated. Turns out our script messed around the permission of `/var/lib/php/session` after having the container run as root it straighten things out

Thanks @ginerjm, the legacy system run on VM. Virtual machine. The new system run on Docker container. @requinix, I am only guessing but I think PHP created the sub directory `/var/lib/php/session`, because I did not explicitly create that directory and I also know my container won't start properly if apache does not have access to that directory. Httpd will fail with error message complaining lack of access to that directory. What I don't understand is why after it starts it doesn't write anything to that directory.

Hi PHP users We are migrating a PHP website from an old host to a container. The old code runs on VM directly, now we built a container that facilitate the PHP website. Both old and new PHP website run on top of apache httpd with php version 5.4.16. However, there's a feature of this website that saves user session under `/var/lib/php/session` that does not work in our new, containerized version. The directory seems to always be empty even if there are active sessions. We have checked the following: * The `session` configuration seems identical between the old and new site (pasting the config below) * We verified `apache` user is the owner of `/var/lib/php/session` directory * In php error logs, there doesn't seem to be anything indicating why the sessions are not saved I am not familiar with PHP and don't know how I could debug this further, just checking if I can get some help on this. * Any chance we forgot to install any module that would allow session persistent? * Why would there not be any logs indicating the sessions not being saved? Do I need to somehow enable more logging to observe what is happening? * Was the session not saved or did it timeout and get wiped? Is there such setting somewhere that can cause this? Our configuration Session Support: enabled Registered save handlers: files user Registered serializer handlers: php php_binary session.auto_start: Off session.cache_expire: 180 session.cache_limiter: nocache session.cookie_domainno value session.cookie_httponly: Off session.cookie_lifetime: 0 session.cookie_path: / session.cookie_secure: Off session.entropy_file: /dev/urandom session.entropy_length: 32 session.gc_divisor: 1000 session.gc_maxlifetime: 1440 session.gc_probability: 1 session.hash_bits_per_character: 5 session.hash_function: 0 session.name: PHPSESSID session.referer_check: no value session.save_handler: files session.save_path: /var/lib/php/session session.serialize_handler: php session.upload_progress.cleanup: On session.upload_progress.enabled: On session.upload_progress.freq: 1% session.upload_progress.min_freq: 1 session.upload_progress.name: PHP_SESSION_UPLOAD_PROGRESS session.upload_progress.prefix: upload_progress_ session.use_cookies: On session.use_only_cookies: On session.use_trans_sid: 0