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Session State Is Lost in Web Farm If You Use SqlServer or StateServer Session Mode

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Jawahar Ganesh S
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Feb 15, 2019
One of the most common issues that users face when hosting their application in a webfarm is “unexpected loss of session state”. We face these issues when we store the session information inproc, esp...
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chadwixk
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Sep 22, 2020

Is this article conflicting because it states that it uses the website's file path as the key, not the site ID, or am I missing something:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/aspnet/ms178586(v=vs.100)

 

"The path for the ASP.NET application in the IIS metabase must be identical on all Web servers that share session state in the SQL Server database. For information on steps to resolve the issue when application paths differ between servers, see article 325056, "PRB: Session State Is Lost in Web Farm If You Use SqlServer or StateServer Session Mode," in the Microsoft Knowledge Base at http://support.microsoft.com/."