{"id":695,"date":"2010-11-16T13:08:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T12:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uk-cheapest.co.uk\/support\/?p=695"},"modified":"2012-07-18T11:32:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T10:32:25","slug":"how-do-i-change-the-default-session-save_path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uk-cheapest.co.uk\/support\/how-do-i-change-the-default-session-save_path\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I change the default session.save_path?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when you will need to modify the default<strong>session.save_path<\/strong>\u00a0which is hard coded into your PHP confguration. When using Plesk, the PHP.INI file is shared however you have control over many of the flags.<\/p>\n<p>First, you need to create a\u00a0<em><strong>.htaccess file<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0in your document root (\/httpdocs), it is within this file that you add your custom PHP session save path flag, eg:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em><strong>php_value session.save_path &#8220;\/var\/www\/vhosts\/yourdomainname.co.uk\/httpdocs\/tmp&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This flag would set the session save path to your \/httpdocs\/tmp folder, simply ensure this folder exists. If you are manually installing Joomla you may need to change the session.save_path. 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