Session expiration problem

[nareshrevoori]

Why my session data is not expiring after its default time out( 24 mins).I installed WAMP software on my windows PC.

 

When i checked in php.ini file, it says

 

; After this number of seconds, stored data will be seen as 'garbage' and
; cleaned up by the garbage collection process.
session.gc_maxlifetime = 24

; NOTE: If you are using the subdirectory option for storing session files
;       (see session.save_path above), then garbage collection does *not*
;       happen automatically.  You will need to do your own garbage
;       collection through a shell script, cron entry, or some other method.
;       For example, the following script would is the equivalent of
;       setting session.gc_maxlifetime to 1440 (1440 seconds = 24 minutes):
;          cd /path/to/sessions; find -cmin +24 | xargs rm

 

My session files storage path is

session.save_path = "c:/wamp/tmp"

 

I so what path i should give above so that garbage collection process happen automatically.

 

Thanks for your help

 

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Session garbage collection GC runs randomly based on session.gc_probability and session.gc_divisor. If there are few or no session_start() statements being execuited, GC does not run.

 

A sesison is just a container, don't rely on GC to make your application function.