laravel/application/config/session.php

<?php

return array(

	/*
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	| Session Driver
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	|
	| The name of the session driver used by your application. Since HTTP is
	| stateless, sessions are used to simulate "state" across requests made
	| by the same user of your application. In other words, it's how an
	| application knows who the heck you are.
	|
	| Drivers: 'cookie', 'file', 'database', 'memcached', 'apc', 'redis'.
	|
	*/

	'driver' => 'cookie',

	/*
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	| Session Database
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	|
	| The database table on which the session should be stored. It probably
	| goes without saying that this option only matters if you are using
	| the super slick database session driver.
	|
	*/

	'table' => 'sessions',

	/*
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	| Session Garbage Collection Probability
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	|
	| Some session drivers require the manual clean-up of expired sessions.
	| This option specifies the probability of session garbage collection
	| occuring for any given request to the application. 
	|
	| For example, the default value states that garbage collection has a
	| 2% chance of occuring for any given request to the application.
	| Feel free to tune this to your requirements.
	|
	*/

	'sweepage' => array(2, 100),

	/*
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	| Session Lifetime
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	|
	| The number of minutes a session can be idle before expiring.
	|
	*/

	'lifetime' => 60,

	/*
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	| Session Expiration On Close
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	|
	| Determines if the session should expire when the user's web browser closes.
	|
	*/

	'expire_on_close' => false,

	/*
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	| Session Cookie Name
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	|
	| The name that should be given to the session cookie.
	|
	*/

	'cookie' => 'laravel_session',

	/*
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	| Session Cookie Path
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	|
	| The path for which the session cookie is available.
	|
	*/

	'path' => '/',

	/*
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	| Session Cookie Domain
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	|
	| The domain for which the session cookie is available.
	|
	*/

	'domain' => null,

	/*
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	| HTTPS Only Session Cookie
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	|
	| Determines if the cookie should only be sent over HTTPS.
	|
	*/

	'secure' => false,

);