No autoremove of session files ? (in app/tmp/sessions , Cakephp2)

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Hello,

I wonder if there’s a ready-way to auto remove expired session files?

timeout won’t delete the session file and will just make it expired, and the file won’t be deleted from app/tmp/sessions. In a long term it can take a lot of space in the server if you have traffic.

Configure::write('Session', array(
		'defaults' => 'cake',
		'timeout' => 1, //36000
	));

Otherwise I’ll probably do a script or a php function that checks regularly the session files to remove old ones based on their modification date.

Regards

2

Session timeout and session garbage collection are two different operations, and the latter doesn’t happen immediately, but with a certain probability on session startup.

You have to configure the relevant PHP INI settings accordingly, check session.gc_probability, session.gc_divisor, and session.gc_maxlifetime (this one is being set automatically by CakePHP, derived from the timeout option).