Laravel Redis Session Driver doesn't work

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I'm having difficulties using the laravel 4 "redis" session driver. The problem is nothing gets actually stored. Things i've checked: - I've set the driver to `redis` in Session-config file and cache-config file - In database-config file a database config for redis is specified: I tried storing something manually with the redis-class, that did work, storing with the session class did not 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 That's interesting: When I use `redis-cli monitor`as suggested by @philo, I get some output while trying to log in my L4 application: ``` `1387191809.513730 [0 127.0.0.1:59268] "SELECT" "0"…

Accepted Answer

I've found the solution thanks to the tip from @philo.

The session lifetime in my config file was set to `zero`, because I want my session to expire on browser close. That works for native sessions, but for redis sessions it causes the session to expire immediately. When I change the life time, my session works as expected.

Now I'm still searching how to expire on browser close

Laravel Redis Session Driver doesn't work

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