Laravel 4.2 Upload Session Progress

I'm trying to show upload progress for an app and I've implemented Dropzone, Blueimp Jquery File Upload and Uploadifive and none of them show upload progress. They all upload successfully, however the progress bar jumps from 0 to a 100% almost immediately (not on localhost) and then just waits for the remainder of the upload. I'm testing with ~5mb files. I've found some posts on laravel.io and stackoverflow of people with the same issues, but none of them have any answers. The people there are suggesting that it's because Laravel 4.2 doesn't used the native php sessions and therefore the upload progress is not reported that way. I've looked into using APC to report the progress, but that is is for older php versions. I'm running PHP 5.5 on a forge server. Has anyone managed to get file upload progress to work on 4.2 and possibly on a forge server?