Laravel Redis Session Driver Does Not Work

Question

I'm having difficulty using the larvel 4 "redis" session driver. The problem is that virtually nothing is saved.

Things I checked:

• I installed the driver in redis in the session configuration file and cache configuration file
• The database configuration file indicates the database configuration for redis:

• I tried saving something manually using a redis class that really worked, storage with the session class didn't work

   // this is in my session config 'driver' => 'redis', //this is my db-config 'redis' => array( 'cluster' => true, 'default' => array( 'host' => '127.0.0.1', 'port' => 6379, 'database' => 0, ), ), //this works $redis = Redis::connection(); $redis->set('name', 'Taylor'); //this doesn't work Session::put('name', 'Taylor'); 

When I change the session to native , it works

Any help would be appreciated

UPDATE
This is interesting: When I use redis-cli monitor , as suggested by @philo, I get some output when trying to enter my L4 application:

 `1387191809.513730 [0 127.0.0.1:59268] "SELECT" "0" 1387191809.513835 [0 127.0.0.1:59268] "GET" "laravel:siau639prmckja34le11vbsfl7" 1387191809.863851 [0 127.0.0.1:59268] "SET" "laravel:siau639prmckja34le11vbsfl7" "s:226:\"_sf2_attributes|a:2:{s:6:\"_token\";s:40:\"9LPf354C2ZNtw0Oc1zyafSvMdFFlspPiJsq8w90v\";s:5:\"flash\";a:2:{s:3:\"old\";a:0:{}s:3:\"new\";a:0:{}}}_sf2_flashes|a:0:{}_sf2_meta|a:3:{s:1:\"u\";i:1387191809;s:1:\"c\";i:1387191809;s:1:\"l\";s:1:\"0\";}\";" 1387191809.866655 [0 127.0.0.1:59268] "EXPIRE" "laravel:siau639prmckja34le11vbsfl7" "0" 1387191828.464840 [0 127.0.0.1:59279] "SELECT" "0" 1387191828.464970 [0 127.0.0.1:59279] "GET" "laravel:siau639prmckja34le11vbsfl7" 1387191828.581774 [0 127.0.0.1:59279] "SET" "laravel:siau639prmckja34le11vbsfl7" "s:599:\"_sf2_attributes|a:4:{s:6:\"_token\";s:40:\"KSkc5OAsp9Psz3MC7dYo6FfkTvcdK6I6HcisSyJ3\";s:10:\"_old_input\";a:3:{s:6:\"_token\";s:40:\"9LPf354C2ZNtw0Oc1zyafSvMdFFlspPiJsq8w90v\";s:8:\"username\";s:10:\"bertcasier\";s:8:\"password\";s:4:\"test\";}s:5:\"flash\";a:2:{s:3:\"new\";a:0:{}s:3:\"old\";a:2:{i:0;s:10:\"_old_input\";i:1;s:6:\"errors\";}}s:6:\"errors\";O:29:\"Illuminate\\Support\\MessageBag\":2:{s:11:\"\x00*\x00messages\";a:1:{s:7:\"general\";a:1:{i:0;s:48:\"Ongeldige gebruikersnaam/wachtwoordcombinatie...\";}}s:9:\"\x00*\x00format\";s:8:\":message\";}}_sf2_flashes|a:0:{}_sf2_meta|a:3:{s:1:\"u\";i:1387191828;s:1:\"c\";i:1387191828;s:1:\"l\";s:1:\"0\";}\";" 1387191828.582214 [0 127.0.0.1:59279] "EXPIRE" "laravel:siau639prmckja34le11vbsfl7" "0" 1387191828.613536 [0 127.0.0.1:59284] "SELECT" "0" 1387191828.613649 [0 127.0.0.1:59284] "GET" "laravel:siau639prmckja34le11vbsfl7" 1387191828.653734 [0 127.0.0.1:59284] "SET" "laravel:siau639prmckja34le11vbsfl7" "s:226:\"_sf2_attributes|a:2:{s:6:\"_token\";s:40:\"SMxXljPLDaViVVSpCohfOKlpByhjp8E2ywS6zVkh\";s:5:\"flash\";a:2:{s:3:\"old\";a:0:{}s:3:\"new\";a:0:{}}}_sf2_flashes|a:0:{}_sf2_meta|a:3:{s:1:\"u\";i:1387191828;s:1:\"c\";i:1387191828;s:1:\"l\";s:1:\"0\";}\";" 1387191828.654102 [0 127.0.0.1:59284] "EXPIRE" "laravel:siau639prmckja34le11vbsfl7" "0" 1387191878.208814 [0 127.0.0.1:59358] "config" "get" "databases" 1387191878.215094 [0 127.0.0.1:59358] "INFO" "keyspace" 1387191880.176125 [0 127.0.0.1:59358] "select" "0" 1387191880.176314 [0 127.0.0.1:59358] "keys" "*"` 

Does my session seem to expire immediately? I wrote a custom Auth User Provider that registers me with a rest-API and saves the result in a session. But when I use the redis session driver, I immediately get redirected to the login page. When I use RDM (redis client GUI), I cannot find session variables

Answer 1

I found a solution thanks to @philo's hint.

The session lifetime in my configuration file was set to zero because I want my session to expire when the browser closes. This works for native sessions, but for redis sessions this causes the session to expire immediately. When I change my life time, my session works as expected.

Now I'm still looking for how to expire in the browser close

Answer 2

Now I'm still looking for how to expire in the browser close

Please note that cookie lifetime and session data are not related. You want the cookie lifetime to be 0 (delete when you close the browser), and the session data lifetime will be longer (if you allow between requests).

Answer 3

You must attach your route to the controller using middlewareGroups - Laravel 5.2

Route :: group (['middlewareGroups' => ['web']], function () {...});