(backend problem) Time out, wait 5 mins then login back as admin, timeout again...wai

digiblood · 04.12.2004, 10:59

I would really really appreciate any help on this.

I have mutiple installation of mambo (on different servers) and all of them are not working. The server I'm using is shyper.com.

After installation and setting of all the permissions, everytime i try to do a task such as creating a new content, it will work for the 1st time. The 2nd time i try make a new content, it will timeout (give a 404 page) and i have to try to login back as admin. I can't login though (it will just try to connect for a long time), unless i wait for a good 5 minutes.

can someone pls help?

the thing is, i can make changes to the site but i keep timing out when doing so. Could it be session problems in the admin side? The status was OK during installation. The session dir is pointing correctly to "/tmp"

-Gad

walb · 04.12.2004, 16:08

Weird. Maybe cookie problem?
Try to clear cookies through the browser options.

digiblood · 07.12.2004, 11:09

Still couldnt get it to work. I'm gonna switch servers. A friend told me of one that worked with mambo. Thanks for ur help tho'.

-Gad

Centic · 11.03.2005, 22:39

I had a similar problem with my ISP when they changed something so that the PHP-Session-Management did not work any more. Apparently the default session-save-path that is set in the php.ini was not writeable any more and thus I could no longer log in any more but was always silently returned to the login-page.

I posted a solution (in German) at http://www.mambers.com/showthread.php?p=104506
Tell me if you need a translation.

Dominik.

quiquedcode · 12.03.2005, 02:23

hi Centic
I'd like to see the translation, coz I have the same problem in one of the websites...
Thanks !!

quiquedcode · 15.03.2005, 03:41

hi
any news on this ?

pmascarenhas · 06.10.2006, 03:54

Hi Guys,

I hope the following info helps:

I had the same problem and I fixed this way:

for joomla 1.0.11

1 - create a "tmp" folder in your account joomla instalation root and cmod it 0777
2 - edit includes/joomla.php and chage all 1800 or 1900 values in the code for 36000

3 - edit administrator/index.php, index2.php , index3.php and includes/joomla.php

and add the following in the beginnig after "MOS or die"....

// path for cookies
$cookie_path = "/";

// timeout value for the cookie
$cookie_timeout = 1200 * 30; // in seconds

// timeout value for the garbage collector
// we add 300 seconds, just in case the user's computer clock
// was synchronized meanwhile; 600 secs (10 minutes) should be
// enough - just to ensure there is session data until the
// cookie expires
$garbage_timeout = $cookie_timeout + 600; // in seconds

// set the PHP session id (PHPSESSID) cookie to a custom value
session_set_cookie_params($cookie_timeout, $cookie_path);

// set the garbage collector - who will clean the session files -
// to our custom timeout
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', $garbage_timeout);
ini_set('session.gc_probability',1);
ini_set('session.gc_divisor',1000);
ini_set('session.save_path','/your_full_path_here/xxx/yyy/tmp');
// we need a distinct directory for the session files,
// otherwise another garbage collector with a lower gc_maxlifetime
// will clean our files aswell - but in an own directory, we only
// clean sessions with our "own" garbage collector (which has a
// custom timeout/maxlifetime set each time one of our scripts is
// executed)
strstr(strtoupper(substr($_SERVER["OS"], 0, 3)), "WIN") ?
$sep = "\\" : $sep = "/";
$sessdir = ini_get('session.save_path').$sep;

4 - Set in joomla administration admintime to 36000

I hope it works for you as well is working for me!

I can help with other versions and can also explain what problem these code lines solve

email me at: vogita "at" vogita "dot" com

apauaie · 10.11.2006, 00:27

Thanks pmascarenhas, your method works.... I'm really glad i found this forum...been searching everywhere....Nice find....Thanks