Diabling Symfony2 sessions files

Question

I'm looking for a way to disable the file saving of PHP sessions. (I do not need sessions in my application)

I tried to set save_path = NULL, but it only set it to the default path (/tmp).

Is there a way to do that ? Or maybe I shouldn't do it at all for reasons I ignore ?

If your application doesn't actually use sessions, where are they coming from? — Michael Hampton, Mar 10 '14 at 16:05
I guess it's Symfony2, or one of the bundles that creates them by default. I am going to take a look, thanks — Nicolas Reynolds, Mar 10 '14 at 16:10

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 10 '14 at 16:11

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PHP should only be creating session files is session_start() is called in your application (meaning it needs them) or PHP is configured to always start sessions.

Make sure session.auto_start = 0 is set in your php.ini so that the sessions are not started automatically

Once that's set if you aren't creating sessions then your save path shouldn't matter at all.

answered Mar 10 '14 at 16:11

DorianFM

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If you _really_ wanted to disable sessions you could also create a current `session_set_save_handler()` which called empty functions, hence doing nothing. – DorianFM Mar 10 '14 at 16:14

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '14 at 13:14

I solved my problem. I disabled the saving of session in Symfony2 directly, by adding stateless to the app/config/security.yml file :

firewalls:
    api:
        stateless: true
        pattern: ^/
        http_basic:
            realm: "Authentification needed"

This way the sessions are used but not stored in files.

Diabling Symfony2 sessions files

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