How to locate your session files
Locate your session storage
This topic discusses how to locate where your session files are stored. The system uses the following logic to store session files:
- If you configured memcached, sessions are stored in RAM; for more information, see Use memcached for session storage.
- If you configured Redis, sessions are stored on the Redis server; for more information, see Use Redis for page caching or session storage.
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If you’re using the default file-based session storage, we store sessions in the following locations in the order shown:
env.php
example
A sample snippet from <magento_root>/app/etc/env.php
follows:
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'session' =>
array (
'save' => 'files',
'save_path' => '/var/www/session',
),
The preceding example stores session files in /var/www/session
php.ini
example
As a user with root
privileges, open your php.ini
file and search for the value of session.save_path
. This identifies where sessions are stored.
Manage session size
See the User Guide.
Garbage collection configuration
To clean up expired sessions, the system calls the gc
(garbage collection) handler randomly according to a probability that is calculated by the gc_probability / gc_divisor
directive. For example, if you set these directives to 1/100
respectively, it means a probability of 1%
(probability of one call of garbage collection per 100 requests).
The garbage collection handler uses the gc_maxlifetime
directive—the number of seconds after which the sessions will be seen as garbage and potentially cleaned up.
On some operating systems (Debian/Ubuntu), the default session.gc_probability
directive is 0
, which prevents the garbage collection handler from running.
You can overwrite the session.gc_
directives from the php.ini
file in the <magento_root>/app/etc/env.php
file:
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'session' =>
array (
'save' => 'db',
'gc_probability' => 1,
'gc_divisor' => 1000,
'gc_maxlifetime' => 1440
),
The configuration varies, depending on the traffic and specific needs of the merchant’s website.