如何在App Engine上配置带有memcache的Laravel？

Question

I uploaded a Laravel website to Google App Engine but cannot login because session does not work.

In app/config/cache.php and app/config/session.php, I changed:

'driver' => 'memcached',

but in cache.php, I see:

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Memcached Servers
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Now you may specify an array of your Memcached servers that should be
| used when utilizing the Memcached cache driver. All of the servers
| should contain a value for "host", "port", and "weight" options.
|
*/

'memcached' => array(

    array('host' => '127.0.0.1', 'port' => 11211, 'weight' => 100),

),

Is 'host' => '127.0.0.1' the cause of my problem or is it something else?

[Update] When I try to use

'driver' => 'file',

and session file is store in <bucket-name>/storage/session. The session was created and stored, but Response Headers from Server:Google Frontend does not contain sessionId.

Answer 1

The Memcache service on Google App Engine is not exactly the same as the standard memcached so you won't be able to run an application such as Laravel directly on App Engine without adapting it to that environment. Specifically, there isn't a hostname or IP or port for you to connect to which exposes the memcached API directly.

Fortunately, other folks have already done this so you can use the fruits of their labor, namely, take a look at Laravel 4 on Google AppEngine for PHP and the discussion on laravel.io which references the above tutorial and also points to the GAE adapter package for Laravel apps.

Note that I haven't tried this out but looks like it should work for you; please post follow-up questions on the form where the author posted their work.