[Xerte-dev] Re: Session timeout

[Pat Lockley (Pgogy)]

Well yes and no

https://github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoolkits/blob/79104a529f750b19a22a2d34181240c632ba4096/session_handler.php 
exists (but looks partially out of date).

With PHP you can opt to tell the server to handle sessions in a 
different way to "standard". When I wrote eureka, and having grown weary 
of session timeout, I wrote a database session handler. It proved a lot 
more resilient than the default option. However, in the week I left, PHP 
was upgraded and the scope to run a DB session disappeared.

session.gc_maxlifetime (look in a phpinfo() dump) is key as this is the 
time.

If might be something to code into the editor and then fire off a null 
ajax request to maintain the session?

Pat

On 2016-07-13 05:06, ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk wrote:
> I think that's most likely to be controlled by session timeout
> settings on the server rather than Xerte. Could be wrong but I don't
> think we have any code in Xerte to attempt to increase or decrease
> those settings.
> 
> However now that I'm working some of the time at UoN and have access
> to your install I have noticed that if I revisit your install and
> login and then try to edit a project I get Session ID not set. I have
> to logout and then back in and all is fine. I don't get this on any
> other install that I have access to which is quite a large number!
> 
> HTH
> 
> Ron
> 
> FROM: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] ON BEHALF OF Fay
> Cross
> SENT: 13 July 2016 09:55
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> SUBJECT: [Xerte-dev] Session timeout
> 
> Does anyone know how long you can stay logged into Xerte for before it
> logs you out? I've had a report of loss of data in a project (we have
> the multiple window fix on our install so I don't think it's this) and
> they have said that some of their colleagues have said they've had
> similar issues and found they had been logged out (not reported to me
> at the time so I'm not sure if these other losses were before the
> editor window fix or not). I'm waiting for more info but in the
> meantime is anyone else having similar issues?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Fay
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