Manual:$wgSessionHandler
 | This feature was removed completely in version 1.33.0. |
| Cookies: $wgSessionHandler | |
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| Used to set PHP's session.save_handler. |
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| Introduced in version: | 1.16.0 (r49370) |
| Deprecated in version: | 1.27.0 (Gerrit change 267737; git #2257fe42) |
| Removed in version: | 1.33.0 (Gerrit change 489405; git #a38fe6cd) |
| Allowed values: | (string) or null |
| Default value: | null (1.18-1.32)'files' (1.16-1.17) |
| Other settings: Alphabetical | By function | |
Details
This is used for setting PHP's session.save_handler. In practice, you will almost never need to change this ever. Other options might be 'user' or 'session_mysql'.
Setting to null skips setting this entirely (which might be useful if you're doing cross-application sessions, see bug 11381).