TerryG

It is annoying to be working on a page and then lose everything because the session has timed out before I hit save.

I have upped the time in administration but I still don't understand something.
Does the timing count the entire session since logging in or does it reset itself every time you make a change?

hlbog

I have the same problem on two installations of Mambo. I had submitted several posts about it, but no replies... The time field on mos_session table is updated every refresh on page, so I guess this is cookie related.
What browser are oy using? I use Mozilla and Firefox.

pmascarenhas

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