Laravel not storing session data in Redis

Question

I just decided to switch to Redis to store my session and cache data. But Laravel seems to use local file storage itself.

I have installed the predis composer dependency and have changed the config to:

SESSION_DRIVER=redis

REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
REDIS_PASSWORD=secret
REDIS_PORT=6379

also in the config/session.php file, I have used 'connection' => 'redis'. Still, it seems to store all my login cookies and session data in the storage/framework/session

What do I need to do??

Answer 1

It seems you might be using config caching. You should run:

php artisan config:cache

to flush your config data.