Redis sessions prefix

I'm having the same problem. Did you find any solution for that?

Unfortunately not.

I found a solution, you can update the Illuminate\Session\CacheBasedSessionHandler read(), write() and destroy() methods to prefix the $sessionId variable with any string prefix you want.

easier solution (I think). Update the cache.php config file and set the prefix to ''.

let me know what you find out.

@robrogers3 The issue is not the prefix in cache.php, but rather that sessions stored in redis are impossible to filter without having a prefix themselves.

With my solution, the redis session keys look like "laravel:session:voMKMBN2zvC4OiqUbQyFDHZBfdO69ifJlYjmRE4U" and are easy to filter.

@dsup how to add session prefix ?

In Laravel 5.3 and later, we can change the Redis session prefix by just adding a new cache store definition to config/cache.php:

'stores' => [
    ...
    'redis:session' => [
        'driver' => 'redis',
        'connection' => 'default',
        'prefix' => 'session', // ta-da
    ],
],

Then change the value of store to redis:session in config/session.php.

For Laravel 5.2 and below, we can set the prefix manually (in a service provider, for example):

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    public function boot()
    {
        $this->app->make('session')->driver('redis')
            ->getCache()
            ->getStore()
            ->setPrefix('session');
    }
}

Remember that clearing the cache will erase all data in the same Redis database even when we use different prefixes. To avoid this, set a different database number for the cache connection, or store the cache data in a separate Redis server.