You can use NFS shares, but I've read that it is too slow for most
situations. My suggestion would be to use a database and use a custom PHP
session handler. A really good tutorial (including working code) on how to
write custom PHP session handlers utilizing a database can be found at the
following URL:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/ying20000602.php3
I've tested this code and it worked fine utilzing MySQL. You can apply the
same concepts to just about any datasource you want.
Josh Hoover
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> From: Michael Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Is it possible to handle sessions with PHP between separate
> web servers? We
> have 2 Apache servers and would like to share session data
> between them. If
> we keep the session data on an NFS mounted drive -- will this
> work? Would it
> be better to write custom session handlers to store session
> data in a database
> accessible from both servers? It seems like this should be
> possible, but I'm
> not quite sure how to go about doing it. Also, this is on 2 separate
> platforms. One is RedHat Linux 7.1 and the other server is
> on AIX 4.3.3.
>
> Thanks in advance for any replies,
> Mike
