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kristophjunge / docker-mediawiki

Dockerized MediaWiki running under Nginx and PHP-FPM. Based on the official PHP7 image. Packaged with VisualEditor plugin and Parsoid service.

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cache sessions in DB #4

Closed bebehei closed 7 years ago

bebehei commented 7 years ago

Known issues

Sessions are stored in memory via APC and will be lost after container stop.

What about using $wgSessionCacheType = CACHE_DB; in LocalSettings.php? According to the docs, this should save session tokens in Database and database should be persistent and survive a reboot.

I tested it with ExtraLocalSettings.php and it seems to work. I couldn't verify it by 100% (it's 3am).

FB to your image: Keep up the good work! This docker image is absolutely high quality! 👍

kristophjunge commented 7 years ago

I have tested it and can confirm its working.

I decided to make it a MySQL specific default value for the following reasons:

The documentation says that it must be set to a persistent cache for proper operation.
I think its the expected default behaviour when using MySQL that the sessions are persistent and even when its not the most performant cache its at least scaleable.

I decide not to use it as default when using SQLite because it would lead to a large amount of write operations which could make the usage of SQLite inefficient.

I removed the "Known Issue" from the readme and added you to the contributors list.

Thank you very much!

bebehei commented 7 years ago

Thank you very much, too!