Laravel Redis Session Driver doesn't work

Question

I'm having difficulties using the laravel 4 "redis" session driver. The problem is nothing gets actually stored.

Things i've checked:

I've set the driver to redis in Session-config file and cache-config file
In database-config file a database config for redis is specified:

I tried storing something manually with the redis-class, that did work, storing with the session class did not work

// this is in my session config
'driver' => 'redis',

//this is my db-config
'redis' => array(

    'cluster' => true,

    'default' => array(
        'host'     => '127.0.0.1',
        'port'     => 6379,
        'database' => 0,
    ),

),


//this works
$redis = Redis::connection();
$redis->set('name', 'Taylor');

//this doesn't work
Session::put('name', 'Taylor');

When i change the session to native it works

Any help would be appreciated

UPDATE
That's interesting: When I use redis-cli monitoras suggested by @philo, I get some output while trying to log in my L4 application:

`1387191809.513730 [0 127.0.0.1:59268] "SELECT" "0"
1387191809.513835 [0 127.0.0.1:59268] "GET" "laravel:siau639prmckja34le11vbsfl7"
1387191809.863851 [0 127.0.0.1:59268] "SET" "laravel:siau639prmckja34le11vbsfl7" "s:226:"_sf2_attributes|a:2:{s:6:"_token";s:40:"9LPf354C2ZNtw0Oc1zyafSvMdFFlspPiJsq8w90v";s:5:"flash";a:2:{s:3:"old";a:0:{}s:3:"new";a:0:{}}}_sf2_flashes|a:0:{}_sf2_meta|a:3:{s:1:"u";i:1387191809;s:1:"c";i:1387191809;s:1:"l";s:1:"0";}";"
1387191809.866655 [0 127.0.0.1:59268] "EXPIRE" "laravel:siau639prmckja34le11vbsfl7" "0"
1387191828.464840 [0 127.0.0.1:59279] "SELECT" "0"
1387191828.464970 [0 127.0.0.1:59279] "GET" "laravel:siau639prmckja34le11vbsfl7"
1387191828.581774 [0 127.0.0.1:59279] "SET" "laravel:siau639prmckja34le11vbsfl7" "s:599:"_sf2_attributes|a:4:{s:6:"_token";s:40:"KSkc5OAsp9Psz3MC7dYo6FfkTvcdK6I6HcisSyJ3";s:10:"_old_input";a:3:{s:6:"_token";s:40:"9LPf354C2ZNtw0Oc1zyafSvMdFFlspPiJsq8w90v";s:8:"username";s:10:"bertcasier";s:8:"password";s:4:"test";}s:5:"flash";a:2:{s:3:"new";a:0:{}s:3:"old";a:2:{i:0;s:10:"_old_input";i:1;s:6:"errors";}}s:6:"errors";O:29:"Illuminate\Support\MessageBag":2:{s:11:"\x00*\x00messages";a:1:{s:7:"general";a:1:{i:0;s:48:"Ongeldige gebruikersnaam/wachtwoordcombinatie...";}}s:9:"\x00*\x00format";s:8:":message";}}_sf2_flashes|a:0:{}_sf2_meta|a:3:{s:1:"u";i:1387191828;s:1:"c";i:1387191828;s:1:"l";s:1:"0";}";"
1387191828.582214 [0 127.0.0.1:59279] "EXPIRE" "laravel:siau639prmckja34le11vbsfl7" "0"
1387191828.613536 [0 127.0.0.1:59284] "SELECT" "0"
1387191828.613649 [0 127.0.0.1:59284] "GET" "laravel:siau639prmckja34le11vbsfl7"
1387191828.653734 [0 127.0.0.1:59284] "SET" "laravel:siau639prmckja34le11vbsfl7" "s:226:"_sf2_attributes|a:2:{s:6:"_token";s:40:"SMxXljPLDaViVVSpCohfOKlpByhjp8E2ywS6zVkh";s:5:"flash";a:2:{s:3:"old";a:0:{}s:3:"new";a:0:{}}}_sf2_flashes|a:0:{}_sf2_meta|a:3:{s:1:"u";i:1387191828;s:1:"c";i:1387191828;s:1:"l";s:1:"0";}";"
1387191828.654102 [0 127.0.0.1:59284] "EXPIRE" "laravel:siau639prmckja34le11vbsfl7" "0"
1387191878.208814 [0 127.0.0.1:59358] "config" "get" "databases"
1387191878.215094 [0 127.0.0.1:59358] "INFO" "keyspace"
1387191880.176125 [0 127.0.0.1:59358] "select" "0"
1387191880.176314 [0 127.0.0.1:59358] "keys" "*"`

Seems like my session expires immediately? I wrote a custom Auth User Provider which logs me in, in a rest-API, and stores the result in the session. But when I use the redis session driver, I get redirected immediately back to the login page. When I use RDM (redis client GUI) I can't find any session variables

Laravel Redis Session Driver doesn't work

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