Let's have a look at an actual custom session backend. This uses MySQL to store the session data. We could set these right in the script, but let's make use of Apache's httpd.conf file to set our custom save handler for a portion of our web site. php_value session.save_handler user php_value session.save_path mydb php_value session.name sessions ]]> ]]> Our PHP files under /var/html/test then simply need to look something like this: ]]>