[Xerte-dev] Re: Session IDs?

[Pat @ Pgogy]

It isn't the timezones.

Sessions are set to die if not used, which is controlled by session entropy (php ini)

If the value for this is high then your session may be very short lived.

The ID is set by the server, and refreshing the page may bring it back.

You don't loose ownership - you loose the session ID, and with that gone the server doesn't know who you are so it blocks you

On 4 May 2013, at 12:31, "Thomas Rochford" <thomas.rochford at jiscadvance.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Again,
>  
> I’m not sure where the session IDs are being set and how they are managed but – because my server is in Germany and I’m in the UK there may be a problem with the time on them. I’ve now found that I lose ‘ownership’ of my LOs periodically and I get errors about the Session Id not being set, but then they suddenly return without any intervention on my part.
>  
> I’ve turned on ‘$development=true’ and, interestingly, get the following when I try to login:
>  
> Strict Standards: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /homepages/26/d187831202/htdocs/tcrochford/toolkits/website_code/php/user_library.php on line 209
>  
> Maybe this needs looking into? With Xerte increasing in popularity I can easily foresee people working on servers in different timezones.
>  
> Kindest Regards,
> Thomas
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