Configuring different sessions for backend and frontend in Yii advanced app

How-tos

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However, if you require cookies for ideal user experience, you need to follow the approach below.

### Option 2: Configure Identity Cookie & Session You can configure different identity cookies and sessions for your user component for frontend and backend app. Note the unique **name** property in **identityCookie**.

#### Backend Config// in backend/config/main.php
'user' => [
  'identityClass' => 'app\models\User',    'enableAutoLogin' => true,   'identityCookie' => [   'name' => '_backendUser', // unique for backend   'path'=>'/advanced/backend/web' // correct path for the backend app.   ]]
 
],
 
'session' => [
 
    'name' => '_backendSessionId', // unique for backend   'savePath' => __DIR__ . '/../runtime', // a temporary folder on backend
 
],
```// in frontend/config/main.php
'user' => [
  'identityClass' => 'app\models\User',    'enableAutoLogin' => true,   'identityCookie' => [    'name' => '_frontendUser', // unique for frontend   'path'=>'/advanced/frontend/web' // correct path for the frontend app.   ]
 
  ]
 
],
 
'session' => [
 
    'name' => '_frontendSessionId', // unique for frontend
 
    'savePath' => __DIR__ . '/../runtime', // a temporary folder on frontend
 
], ``` This should now allow you to have cookie based login, but different authentication sessions for frontend and backend.