diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index 42aa060..7c0170e 100644
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -176,6 +176,18 @@ Actually, the following constants can be overrided:
 - `DEBUG` => default is false (enable logs dump of picoFeed)
 - `DEBUG_DIRECTORY` => default is /tmp (place to store log files)
 - `THEME_DIRECTORY` => default is themes
+- `SESSION_SAVE_PATH` => default is empty (used to store session files in a custom directory)
+
+### How to change the session save path ?
+
+With several shared hosting providers, sessions are cleaned frequently, to avoid to login too often,
+you can save sessions in a custom directory.
+
+- Create a directory, by example `sessions`
+- This directory must be writeable by the web server user
+- This directory must NOT be accessible from the outside world (add a `.htaccess` if necessary)
+- Override the application variable like described above: `define('SESSION_SAVE_PATH', 'sessions');`
+- Now, your sessions are saved in the directory `sessions`
 
 ### How to create a theme for Miniflux?
 
diff --git a/common.php b/common.php
index aee4c6c..de62204 100644
--- a/common.php
+++ b/common.php
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ defined('DB_FILENAME') or define('DB_FILENAME', 'data/db.sqlite');
 defined('DEBUG') or define('DEBUG', false);
 defined('DEBUG_DIRECTORY') or define('DEBUG_DIRECTORY', '/tmp');
 defined('THEME_DIRECTORY') or define('THEME_DIRECTORY', 'themes');
+defined('SESSION_SAVE_PATH') or define('SESSION_SAVE_PATH', '');
 
 PicoTools\container('db', function() {
 
diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
index 628bb07..acfb58e 100644
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ use PicoFarad\Session;
 use PicoTools\Template;
 
 
+if (SESSION_SAVE_PATH !== '') session_save_path(SESSION_SAVE_PATH);
 Session\open(dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']));