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Session logout!

bpahe

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Hi and great to have the forum back!

I was just posting my first question here today, but found out that I was logged of when I had finished writing! I´m not that fast, you know...

Could it be that the session log-out time is a tad too short? ;) Kind of frustrating ´cause you have to start all over again...

/hans
 
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Hi Hans,

I think you are not logged out automatically. It always remembers me, even when I come back a day later :). I think there is a checkbox called Remember me or next to to the place where you log in, had you selected that?
 
Let me know if it happens again, maybe there is some hidden option somewhere deep in the admin panel :D.
 
arno said:
Let me know if it happens again, maybe there is some hidden option somewhere deep in the admin panel :D.
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If this is like the phpBB board I run, there is a session timeout. On my board it is set quite high, 86400 seconds (24 hours). This prevents visitors who are either interrupted while composing or researching a post while creating it from getting dumped as often happens on the more public generic boards.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn the default vBulletin session time-out settings are in the half-hour range which is too short for mature and thoughtfully composed posts.

If anything like phpBB2, the setting is in your Admin/Configuration area.
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arno said:
Let me know if it happens again, maybe there is some hidden option somewhere deep in the admin panel :D.
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Hi!

Yes, it happened again. It appears that if you don´t tick "remember me", then the logout-time is quite short. "Then why don´t you tick that box?" Well, I´m on a public computer, and for obvious reasons don´t want to share my cookies with the co-workers! :D

/hans
 
OK, I will have to check this.

Yesterday I reduced the time that you are remembered as active. This way the Who's online is more accurate and also posts are marked as read after this time. I have set the time to 3 minutes now, it was 15. But there was no mention of that is also logs out users.

Another idea, I think even if you use the remmeber me function, once you click on logout the cookie will be removed anyway. So I think it is save then to use on a public PC as well, but I might need to check that :D.
 
OK, I had a look in the manual of the forum and the logout time is indeed the same time as when you are visible in who's online (and after this your read posts are also saved in the database).

Therefore I have increased the logout time again till 15 minutes, because otherwise it is too short. Let me know if a longer time is needed for big messages or so.
 
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