I have been reading up on this very subject for two days, searching and searching for an answer to why my own sessions will not last past 24 minutes, to no avail.. I've tried setting everything in phpinfo()... I saw one post where a guy actually had a problem because his session WOULDN'T quit... I have sent him a message and begged him for code.. I wish I had that problem.. I'm just at my wits end and ready to open a vein..... ack! I used ini_set("session.cache_expire","10800"); ini_set("session.gc_maxlifetime","10800"); ini_set("session.cookie_lifetime","36000"); session_save_path("/sessfoo"); .....to no avail. I am new to sessions, but boy is it a tough nut to crack. I log in, great, all settings are fine, I refresh great everything likes me, I wait 30 minutes and refresh, bumped out back to log in screen... I'm going now to crawl in bed and pull the covers over my head.. -Sally