• Registered: 2008-05-23
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Topic: Timeout settings for Admin screen

The Admin screen timeout require frequent re-login to screens causing loss of work.  Is there anything that needs to be changed in order to increase the trimeout time or disable timeout for Admin.  I attempted the following but that did not solve the problem:

Global Configuration --> Server
Set Login Session Lifetime to 999999

Thanks for your help

  • From: The Netherlands
  • Registered: 2008-12-03
  • Posts: 14

Re: Timeout settings for Admin screen

Is there already a solution for this problem, I've also tried to change the settings from 900 to 999999 but this has no effect at all.

Peter Buyk

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  • Registered: 2009-04-07
  • Posts: 4

Re: Timeout settings for Admin screen

I have the same problem. I can login to the administrator page locally on the server but cannot remotely log into administrator w/o getting kicked out.

I've migrated from Mambo to MiaCMS.

  • NeilT
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  • Registered: 2008-09-03
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Re: Timeout settings for Admin screen

c.cab1983 wrote:

I have the same problem. I can login to the administrator page locally on the server but cannot remotely log into administrator w/o getting kicked out.

I've migrated from Mambo to MiaCMS.

You may find it's your PHP config that is setting the timeout for example : session.cache_expire = 180

You could also try adding something like this to the admin template to overwrite the php.ini setting if you do not have access to them

<?php
ini_set("session.gc_maxlifetime", "18000");
?>

Hope that helps
Neil

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  • Registered: 2009-04-07
  • Posts: 4

Re: Timeout settings for Admin screen

It also timesout locally, but not as much.. would this fix it as well?

  • From: ph
  • Registered: 2008-05-02
  • Posts: 104

Re: Timeout settings for Admin screen

looks like a session.save_path problem to me.. if it is, it is a problem with the server setup.

You may find a few workaround googling for it..

http://www.google.com.ph/search?q=how+t … .save_path

This article outline several good directions how to fix it:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/11/2 … ng-joomla/

  • NeilT
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  • Registered: 2008-09-03
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Re: Timeout settings for Admin screen

Are you using windows or do you have full access to the server?

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  • Registered: 2009-04-07
  • Posts: 4

Re: Timeout settings for Admin screen

Windows box, yes i have access

  • NeilT
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  • Registered: 2008-09-03
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Re: Timeout settings for Admin screen

Hi. I'm camping now so don't have my laptop but if you look in apache then the conf folder for httpd. Conf open the file and search for sessionuntil you find session save path

Uncomment the session save path bit and point it at a location you can use for example c:/tmp and make sure that exists. Restart apache to pick up the config changes.

Hope that helps
Neil

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