Login Persistence time in 2.10

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Last Post: December 12, 2011   (RSS)

By gkornbluth - July 5, 2011

Hi all,

Has the login persistence time changed in v 2.10?

Seems that since upgrading, I have to re-login a few times a day when I'm working on a site.

Thanks,

Jerry Kornbluth
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Re: [gkornbluth] Login Persistence time in 2.10

By robin - July 5, 2011

Hey Jerry,

The timeout is still set to one day. Were there no other differences? You upgraded to 2.10 and now they timeout is much less?

Thanks
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Re: [robin] Login Persistence time in 2.10

By gkornbluth - July 5, 2011

Seems like a few hours. I've had issues where I'd be updating a record and I'd be asked to re log in and the changes that I made were lost

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Re: [gkornbluth] Login Persistence time in 2.10

By Dave - July 5, 2011

Hi Jerry,

We store login details in what's called "PHP Sessions". These are stored in files on the server and while we keep them for 24 hours sometimes hosts remove them as quickly as after 20 minutes.

You can specify a folder under Admin > General > session.save_path to store session files so they won't get removed by your host. But make sure that folder isn't accessible through your website (put it above /htdocs/ if you can).

Also, see my other post about this here:
http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=87843#87843

Hope that helps! Let me know any questions.
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Re: [Dave] Login Persistence time in 2.10

By gkornbluth - July 5, 2011

Thanks Dave,

I'll give it a try, but this only started occurring after upgrades to 2.10. I've got 2.09 installs running on the same server and it's not an issue.

I also had to re-upload the 2.09 .htaccess on the 2.10 install. Do you think that might affect the timeout issue somehow?

Jerry Kornluth
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Re: [gkornbluth] Login Persistence time in 2.10

By Dave - July 5, 2011

Hi Jerry,

Hmm, well I'm not really sure what could be happening. Maybe keep an eye on it and let us know.

The only way the .htaccess should be able to affect it is if you had set a session.save_path in the .htaccess, and we didn't have any code in 2.10 related to sessions.

Let me know if it continues or you find anything out.
Thanks!
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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Re: [Dave] Login Persistence time in 2.10

By gadefgaertgqe - August 22, 2011

I am also having this problem guys. It's a bit annoying as a number of times I have been entering data, gone to save it, only to find I have been logged out and the data not stored. I do all my work in Firefox (V5). I also agree with the comment on how it started with the change in versions...

Re: [Pixels & Beats] Login Persistence time in 2.10

By ross - August 23, 2011

Hi there

This is definitely quite interesting as the code for sessions hasn't changed. Could you send through a full support request for me?

https://www.interactivetools.com/support/email_support_form.php

I'll run a couple tests and see if we can shed some more light on what's happening.

Thanks!
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Re: [ross] Login Persistence time in 2.10

By dennisoneil - November 8, 2011

Hello,

Just wondering if there were any new solutions for this? I have a client on CMSB v2.12 and is complaining of the issue - logins lasting only an hour or so. I also have another instance of a CMSB 2.12 install where I am experiencing significantly less than 24 hours login time.

My session.cookie_lifetime is set to 86400.

Thanks.