Question

Can someone explain exactly how to make the session to last for longer in PHP, but without using php.ini?

I’ve tried the following in .htaccess:

<IfModule mod_php5.c>
    #Session timeout
    php_value session.cookie_lifetime 3600
    php_value session.gc_maxlifetime 3600
</IfModule>

I’ve also tried:

ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', '3600');

But none of them seem to be working.

Any idea?

Answer 1

Ok – I’ve found the way and it works – in the .htaccess I simply added the following to increase the timeout to 5 hours:

php_value session.cookie_lifetime 18000
php_value session.gc_maxlifetime 18000