[SOLVED] How to ensure deletion of session files

[v8hadas]

Hi There,

 

I am looking for the setting in php.ini what can be configured to make sessions expire and session files removed. Can it be the following entry or is it something else?

 

; After this number of seconds, stored data will be seen as 'garbage' and

; cleaned up by the garbage collection process.

session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440

 

Thanks

[revraz]

That is the maxlife, but you also have to set the ratio on how often you want GC to run.

[v8hadas]

Ah, I see, thanks.

 

session.gc_probability/session.gc_divisor -> coded lottery, prize is cleaning

[revraz]

Yeah.  You have to base it based on how often your pages get loaded.  If you have a ton of traffic you can set the ratio like 1/100.  But if you only get a few users, raising it up to like 10/100 or 20/100 may work better.

 

My webhost had mine defaulted to 1/1000 so it never ran until I changed it to 10/100.