I’m trying to integrate a quiz/survey plugin with an existing WordPress site. Everything is working well, except that if the user lets a quiz/survey sit idle for awhile (30 minutes is long enough to trigger it) they will be greeted with the following error message when trying to submit their reply:
PHP Sessions error. Check your sessions settings.
I did as the error message suggests and checked my PHP session settings. More specifically, I edited the server’s php.ini file and set the session timeout to two hours. I thought that would have done the trick, but when I tested again I got the same issue after 30 minutes of inactivity.
So my questions are:
- Does WordPress maintain a session that is different than the one that PHP maintains? If so how is it configured?
- Is
php.inithe correct place to be configuring my session settings? - Has anyone seen this error before, and if so, what was the solution?
I had the same issue,
I fixed it by making sure
/var/lib/php/sessionfolder was set0777for permissions, deleted all the session files and did a graceful restart of the server.Sessions messages went away and voting worked.