PHP - Change session lifetime 24 minutes (1440 seconds)

Debian10, By debian 10 the default value of session.gc_maxlifetime  is set to 24 min of 1440 seconds.

Change session lifetime 24 minutes (1440 seconds) to 1 hour (3600)

edit php.ini

pico /etc/php/7.3/apache2/php.ini

and change

; After this number of seconds, stored data will be seen as 'garbage' and
; cleaned up by the garbage collection process.
; http://php.net/session.gc-maxlifetime
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440

to

; After this number of seconds, stored data will be seen as 'garbage' and
; cleaned up by the garbage collection process.
; http://php.net/session.gc-maxlifetime
session.gc_maxlifetime = 3600

restart Apache2

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart


Formula to calculate seconds into hours of days

3600   =  1 hour =  [ 60 x 60 = 3600 ]  ( seconds * minuts * = hour )
86400  =  1 day =   [ 60 x 60 x 24 = 86400 ]  ( seconds * minuts * hours = hour ) 
604800 =  1 week =  [ 60 x 60 x 24 x 7 = 604800 ]  ( seconds * minuts * hours * days= week  )