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Asked: 2026-05-24T22:41:23+00:00

After reading through the PHP manual, I added session_name(‘mysite’); to my code to ensure

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After reading through the PHP manual, I added session_name('mysite'); to my code to ensure that collisions between sessions won’t happen if I will run multiple apps in the future.

Unfortunately the session_name()-function call it kills my site completely . A fatal error is thrown (which appears in the error logs, but doesn’t say anything!) and the below error is shown in the browser:

I have PHP-FPM running along with suhosin+nginx at a freshly installed Ubuntu VM. What am I doing wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    As pointed out in the comments on the session_name doc page, there are some issues w/ session_name that can cause your site to break:

    1. Make sure that you call session_name before anything else, including session_start
    2. Make sure there are no periods in your session name (i.e.: don’t use “mysite.com” as your session name)
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