Clean Magento session folder

On a VPS hosting Magento 1.9 disk was getting full. On checking, found var/session folder taking too much disk space.

Disk usage was 34 GB.

This folder is used to store PHP session files. You can delete them.

I created a cronjob to delete the session files that are older.

mkdir /usr/serverok/
vi /usr/serverok/clean-session

Add following content

#!/bin/bash

/bin/find /path/to/var/session -type f -mtime +10 -name "sess_*" -delete

Make it executable

chmod 755 /usr/serverok/clean-session

Set a cronjob to run everyday

@daily /usr/serverok/clean-session > /dev/null 2>&1

Method 2 – Strong session in database

Edit file

vi app/etc/local.xml

Find

Replace with

Comments