Web development blog by Philipp Rieber
By default, PHP persists every user session to a single file stored in the system’s default temporary directory. You can go there, open an arbitrary session file – most likely prefixed by sess_ – and you will find a serialized array which represents the contents of the global $_SESSION array which is available to your scripts. Ok, this works great, so what’s the problem with this setup?
Currently, we are moving our first Symfony2 application to the Amazon cloud (AWS). This series of articles describes how we modified and moved this application.