XF 1.5 cacheSessions: does it only use the configured backend cache or can it be pointed at another cache?

[CTXMedia]

I've been tweaking my server today and replaced my Libmemcached backend cache with APCu because it's faster (in my set-up).

Unfortunately, with cacheSessions enabled everyone gets logged out anytime you stop/start or restart Apache because it flushes the APCu cache.

The "fix" was removing the cacheSessions line from /library/config.php and reverting back to the default of storing of session data in the XF SQL tables.

However, I wondered if there is any way to reenable cacheSessions but point it separately at Libmemcached?

Thanks,
Shaun

 

[Mike]

No, there's not option to point it at a different cache backend.

 

[CTXMedia]

No, there's not option to point it at a different cache backend.

I suspected as much, but thanks for confirming.

 

[Xon]

However, I wondered if there is any way to reenable cacheSessions but point it separately at Libmemcached?

I've done a fairly simple add-on which implements a separate session cache. I haven't yet finished writing migration scripts to copy over if you are using Redis/MySQL. Once I've finished the migration scripts I plan to release this as a free add-on.

But if you want a simply want a separate memcache instance it will function properly. It has all the options (except cacheSessions) as the normal 'cache' block.

I do recommend testing it on a staging instance first.