Session Timeout

Dualtha · Post by **Dualtha** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:00 pm

Hi,

Does anyone know how to increase the session timeout? While entering scripts our browser session is timing out and we are losing all our work.
Any previous posts on this issue were never resolved.
Thanks for any feedback.

edias · Post by **edias** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:39 pm

look in config.inc.php for conf below and change it to what ever timeout you want!

/** Set the session timeout for inactivity (in minutes).
* Default is 60 minutes
*/
$tlCfg->sessionInactivityTimeout = 60;

Dualtha · Post by **Dualtha** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:03 am

Excellent. Worked a treat.

hboeken · Post by **hboeken** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:02 am

I haven't tried the solution yet, but according to the Installation Manual, section 5.12.3, testlinkInactivityTimeout, this should not have worked, or what am I missing here:

5.12.3
Set the session time-out for inactivity (in minutes). Default value of this internal limit is 60 minutes. Time-out is limited by both php.ini and this parameter. Lower value is applied!

So if there is a lower value of session.gc_maxlifetime in php.ini this is still applied if it is lower than the reconfigured testlinkInactivityTimeout?

Post by **havlatm** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 8:37 pm

hboeken · Post by **hboeken** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:29 am

Then I don't understand why it worked for Dualtha...

Dualtha, could you give some more details how exactly your settings are now?

Post by **havlatm** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:54 am

I see that the configuration parameter is still confusing. It is designed for the case, that testlink admin cannot modify general php settings and would like to limit a session for shorter time. I.e. shorter time limit is applied.
Did you read Installation manual? It's described here.

hboeken · Post by **hboeken** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:08 am

havlatm wrote:I see that the configuration parameter is still confusing. It is designed for the case, that testlink admin cannot modify general php settings and would like to limit a session for shorter time. I.e. shorter time limit is applied.
Did you read Installation manual? It's described here.

Yes, I read it. And I think I understood it. But the previous postings in this thread seemed to contradict what is described in the manual (or I misunderstood the postings).

Anyway I think there is the need to be able to set the session for a longer time than the general php settings, not a shorter time.
At least this is the case in our installation, where testers' sessions time out while they are entering their test suite descriptions and when they press 'save' everything is lost due to the short session timeout.

hboeken · Post by **hboeken** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:33 am

havlatm wrote:I see that the configuration parameter is still confusing. It is designed for the case, that testlink admin cannot modify general php settings and would like to limit a session for shorter time. I.e. shorter time limit is applied.
Did you read Installation manual? It's described here.

In our testlink 1.8.1 installation I've modified the following lines in config.inc.php and got the expected result (timeout period of 5 hours) without the need to adapt the "global" setting in php.ini:

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$tlCfg->sessionInactivityTimeout = 300

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ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 18000);

Thanks.

Post by **havlatm** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:58 am

I added increased settings directly to the page code. I hope it will be fine now.

burkery · Post by **burkery** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:21 pm

hboeken wrote:In our testlink 1.8.1 installation I've modified the following lines in config.inc.php and got the expected result (timeout period of 5 hours) without the need to adapt the "global" setting in php.ini:

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$tlCfg->sessionInactivityTimeout = 300
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ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 18000);

This is helpful...thanks. I was further wondering if similar setting could be used to totally disable the timeout? Better yet, does TestLink have any "remember me" functionality that can be enabled?

Regards,

Burke