diff --git a/config/services.yaml b/config/services.yaml
index d8c64b7b..09794e3d 100644
--- a/config/services.yaml
+++ b/config/services.yaml
@@ -214,3 +214,12 @@ services:
 
     App\MyAreaBricks\Custom\Areabricks\:
         resource: '../src/MyAreaBricks/Custom/Areabricks/*'
+
+    # ---------------------------------------------------------
+    # Use PdoSessionHandler for session storage
+    # ---------------------------------------------------------
+    Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Session\Storage\Handler\PdoSessionHandler:
+        lazy: true
+        arguments:
+            - !service { class: PDO, factory: [ '@database_connection', 'getNativeConnection' ] }
+            - { lock_mode: 0 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dump/data-0-bootstrap.sql b/dump/data-0-bootstrap.sql
index 3e33e091..6aa1523a 100644
--- a/dump/data-0-bootstrap.sql
+++ b/dump/data-0-bootstrap.sql
@@ -3272,3 +3272,12 @@ CREATE TABLE `generic_execution_engine_error_log` (
         FOREIGN KEY (jobRunId) REFERENCES generic_execution_engine_job_run (id)
             ON DELETE CASCADE
 ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_general_ci;
+
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `sessions`;
+CREATE TABLE `sessions` (
+    sess_id varbinary(128) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
+    sess_data longblob NOT NULL,
+    sess_lifetime int unsigned NOT NULL,
+    sess_time int unsigned NOT NULL
+) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_bin;
+CREATE INDEX sess_lifetime_idx ON `sessions` (sess_lifetime);