I've used sessions before on shared hosting and they were very simple. I'm now using Amazon and have linux server with the following configuration in php. The catch is session variables don't carry on from one page to the next:
session
Session Support enabled
Registered save handlers files user memcached
Registered serializer handlers php php_binary
Directive Local Value Master Value
session.auto_start Off Off
session.bug_compat_42 Off Off
session.bug_compat_warn Off Off
session.cache_expire 180 180
session.cache_limiter nocache nocache
session.cookie_domain no value no value
session.cookie_httponly On On
session.cookie_lifetime 0 0
session.cookie_path / /
session.cookie_secure Off Off
session.entropy_file no value no value
session.entropy_length 0 0
session.gc_divisor 1000 1000
session.gc_maxlifetime 604800 604800
session.gc_probability 1 1
session.hash_bits_per_character 5 5
session.hash_function 0 0
session.name PHPSESSID PHPSESSID
session.referer_check no value no value
session.save_handler files files
session.save_path /var/lib/php/session /var/lib/php/session
session.serialize_handler php php
session.use_cookies On On
session.use_only_cookies On On
session.use_trans_sid 0 0
Sample Page: http://www.datingjapan.co/index.php
Code: index.php
<?php
session_start();
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
$_SESSION['domain'] = 'www.datinggirls.co';
print_r($_SESSION);
?>
<h1>This is the HTML</h1>
<a href="page.php">Visit W3Schools</a>
page.php
<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['page2'] = 'page-two-data';
print_r($_SESSION);
?>
<h1>This is page 2</h2>
<a href="index.php">Visit Home Page</a>
Any advise... ?
thx