title: PHP Session storage/access issue with Windows Network Mapping Shared Hard Drives
body: <p>In my quest with mapping all my hard drives together is now working fine and I got nginx working fine pulling files from the other hard drive.</p>
  
  <p>But I hit a new snag with PHP: it does not want to pull sessions from the external mapped hard drive.</p>
  
  <p>My Z:/ drive is the drive I am trying to get php to pull and look at sessions in.</p>
  
  <p>The website is Joomla 2.5
  php version is 5.5.7 non threaded (64bit)
  Apache is 2.4.6, mod_fcgid 2.3.9 (64bit)</p>
  
  <p>Here is my mod_fcgi config and my php session config.
  Mod_fcgid :</p>
  
  <pre><code>LoadModule fcgid_module modules/mod_fcgid.so
  &lt;IfModule fcgid_module&gt;
  FcgidInitialEnv PHPRC "c:/server/php-5.5.7-nts"
  FcgidInitialEnv PATH "c:/server/php-5.5.7-nts;C:/WINDOWS/system32;C:/WINDOWS;C:/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem;"
  FcgidInitialEnv SystemRoot "C:/Windows"
  FcgidInitialEnv SystemDrive "C:"
  FcgidInitialEnv TEMP "C:/WINDOWS/Temp"
  FcgidInitialEnv TMP "C:/WINDOWS/Temp"
  FcgidInitialEnv windir "C:/WINDOWS"
  FcgidInitialEnv PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS 0
  FcgidInitialEnv PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN 0
  
  FcgidIdleTimeout 3600
  #FcgidProcessLifeTime 3600
  #FcgidBusyTimeout 3600
  FcgidIOTimeout 3699
  FcgidConnectTimeout 20
  FcgidMinProcessesPerClass 0
  FcgidMaxRequestsPerProcess 0
  FcgidProcessLifeTime 0
  #FcgidMaxRequestInMem 1
  FcgidWin32PreventOrphans On
  #FcgidAuthenticatorAuthoritative Off
  #FcgidAccessCheckerAuthoritative Off
  FcgidMaxRequestLen 1073741824
  &lt;Files ~ "\.php$&gt;"
    AddHandler fcgid-script .php
    FcgidWrapper "c:/server/php-5.5.7-nts/php-cgi.exe" .php
  &lt;/Files&gt;
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>PHP.ini :</p>
  
  <pre><code>session.save_path = "Z:/Windows/Temp"
  </code></pre>