Php Sessions 1and1

Hi Guys,

I seem to have an issue with the PHP Sessions temp folder.
The site is running on 1and1 hosting (shared)
running version 3.6.1

I encountered an issue with running out of file space on the server. Too many files.
The allocated limit is 262.144 files.

To resolve the issue, I had to delete the contents of the PHP Sessions folder - problem solved.

My issue is still ongoing though as the PHP Sessions Temp folder keeps mounting up extremely quickly. After just 8 weeks of emptying the folder, I checked today and have 60,000 files in that folder. Seams extremely high very quickly.

The site can be very busy but over 60k files in the temp folder so quickly is causing me some concern.

Is there an issue somewhere with old sessions not being deleted or is there an ongoing issue with something adding far too many sessions?

Hopefully someone could shed some light on this. Issue is resolved for now but I'm sure the cause of the problem is still ongoing so will mount up again quickly.

Thanks guys

Edited Wed Dec 04, 19 9:27 AM by Kenneth Leek

It's the way PHP 7 on some servers is not automatically cleaning up the session files like it did in PHP 5.

In your Sytist admin click Settings in the main menu then underneath the left menu click edit config file.

Remove these 2 lines:

ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 3600);
ini_set('session.save_path', $setup['path']."/sy-phpsessions");


That will make it use the default server session handling and stop that from happening.

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Thanks for quick reply Tim,

That's me updated the file as instructed. Hopefully this helps other users on similar setup.

Excellent, thank you

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