How to locate your session files
Locate your session storage
This topic discusses how to locate where your session files are stored. The Magento application 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.