Sessions not deleting

My session files are not automatically being deleted. I have a client facing website that uses sessions with logins and a REST API that uses Codeigniter. The API doesn’t use any session data, but I think a session still gets started automatically. 

My session files are building up in: /var/cpanel/php/sessions/ea-php55

That directory gets up to 30 gigabytes in size. Why is it growing so large and why isn’t it cleaning on its own? 

These are my session settings:

$config['sess_driver'] = 'files';
$config['sess_cookie_name'] = ‘mysession';
$config['sess_expiration'] = (60 * 60); 
$config['sess_save_path'] = FCPATH . "sessions";
$config['sess_match_ip'] = FALSE;
$config['sess_time_to_update'] = 300;
$config['sess_regenerate_destroy'] = TRUE;

Any ideas? 

Does your CodeIgniter installation start at /var/cpanel/php/ ? Or, stated a different way, is the main CodeIgniter file index.php found in the /var/cpane/php/ folder?

Also check your php.ini settings for sessions

Code:

session.gc_probability = 1

session.gc_divisor = 1000

session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440

Those are default values.

if gc_probability = 0 it will never delete the session files.

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It's in the public_html folder. 

Does your CodeIgniter installation start at /var/cpanel/php/ ? Or, stated a different way, is the main CodeIgniter file index.php found in the /var/cpane/php/ folder?

Also check your php.ini settings for sessions

Code:

session.gc_probability = 1

session.gc_divisor = 1000

session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440

Those are default values.

if gc_probability = 0 it will never delete the session files.

I already had those set like you posted.

What version of CI are you using? Pretty sure at some point they fixed something to do with sessions on CI3.

It's in the public_html folder. 

Does your CodeIgniter installation start at /var/cpanel/php/ ? Or, stated a different way, is the main CodeIgniter file index.php found in the /var/cpane/php/ folder?

Sorry if I was not clear, but what I'm asking for is the full path to the public_html folder.

The reason I ask is that your statement:

...session files are building up in: /var/cpanel/php/sessions/ea-php55

begs the question of whether the path /var/cpanel/php/ leads to the public_html folder - or not.  If it does not, then all those session fles belong to cpanel and not to CodeIgniter.

What version of CI are you using? Pretty sure at some point they fixed something to do with sessions on CI3.

I'm using 3.1.5

It's in the public_html folder. 

Does your CodeIgniter installation start at /var/cpanel/php/ ? Or, stated a different way, is the main CodeIgniter file index.php found in the /var/cpane/php/ folder?

Sorry if I was not clear, but what I'm asking for is the full path to the public_html folder.

The reason I ask is that your statement:

...session files are building up in: /var/cpanel/php/sessions/ea-php55

begs the question of whether the path /var/cpanel/php/ leads to the public_html folder - or not.  If it does not, then all those session fles belong to cpanel and not to CodeIgniter.

The full path is: /home/user/public_html
Is that what you mean? If not, how do I find the info you are looking for? 

Thanks!!

The full path is: /home/user/public_html
Is that what you mean? If not, how do I find the info you are looking for? 

If that is where the CodeIgniter "index.php" file is found then, yes that's what I was looking for.

Because you use this to define where session files are saved

PHP Code:

$config['sess_save_path'] = FCPATH . "sessions"; 


we know that the CodeIgniter session files are at  /home/user/public_html/sessions/

So, that makes me reasonably confident that the session files building up in /var/cpanel/php/sessions/ea-php55 are related to cpanel.