Comments on: PHP Sessions with Redis Cluster (using AWS Elasticache) https://www.brandonchecketts.com/archives/php-sessions-with-redis-cluster-using-aws-elasticache Web Programming, Linux System Administation, and Entrepreneurship in Athens Georgia Sat, 24 Nov 2018 03:13:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Dan https://www.brandonchecketts.com/archives/php-sessions-with-redis-cluster-using-aws-elasticache/comment-page-1#comment-76314 Sat, 24 Nov 2018 03:13:02 +0000 http://www.brandonchecketts.com/?p=660#comment-76314 Appreciate the how-to, however, it was not as straight forward as I would have preferred. A reason could be changes on AWS as well.

What I did (and what worked for me):
Instead of creating the 30-redis-sessions.ini in the folder (bad practise), load it via the autoload. Also, the seed command did not work for me. I had to change it to tcp.

1. Update redis.ini
sudo nano /etc/php/7.0/mods-available/redis.ini

extension=redis.so
session.save_handler = redis
session.save_path = “tcp://mvXXXXXXXXXXXX1.cache.amazonaws.com:6379”
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1296000

2. Enable plugin
sudo ln -s /etc/php/7.0/mods-available/redis.ini /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/30-redis.ini
sudo ln -s /etc/php/7.0/mods-available/redis.ini /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/30-redis.ini

Apache restart

]]> By: Jonathan https://www.brandonchecketts.com/archives/php-sessions-with-redis-cluster-using-aws-elasticache/comment-page-1#comment-76288 Thu, 22 Nov 2018 11:07:02 +0000 http://www.brandonchecketts.com/?p=660#comment-76288 Thank you. Is there a way to use the read replicas for read requests?

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