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PHP Session Timeout

Can someone explain how to make a session longer in PHP, but without using php.ini?

I 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 also tried:

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

But none of them seem to work.

Any idea?

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Ok - I found a way and it works - in .htaccess I just added the following to increase the timeout to 5 hours:

php_value session.cookie_lifetime 18000
php_value session.gc_maxlifetime 18000
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On many shared hosts, all sessions are stored in one place. Due to how garbage collection works, this means that all sessions are deleted after the shortest GC interval.

One solution:

php_value session.save_path "/my/personal/path"
php_value session.gc_maxlifetime "3600"

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