A user of a wiki that I manage reported that during a half hour period, she found herself logged out and had to log in again. She did not view the logout screen - she just realized that she could no longer edit and realized that she wasn't logged in. She has not had this problem before, and the problem appears to have gone away now. She connects via wireless in her office.
Does anyone have any idea of what might have caused this? Could she have been having dropped connections on her wireless? Is the IP address stored in the token or session cookies?
Any information to help me understand this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Tim Doyle
MediaWiki does indeed use some manner of cookies; if it just happened to one user, it's nothing for you to worry about, and if it just happened once, it isn't something that should be a problem for her. If it happens to her again, or it happens to other people, then you should look into it, but if it's just a random occurrence, it probably isn't anything to worry about. :)
On 9/8/06, Tim Doyle tim@greenscourt.com wrote:
A user of a wiki that I manage reported that during a half hour period, she found herself logged out and had to log in again. She did not view the logout screen - she just realized that she could no longer edit and realized that she wasn't logged in. She has not had this problem before, and the problem appears to have gone away now. She connects via wireless in her office.
Does anyone have any idea of what might have caused this? Could she have been having dropped connections on her wireless? Is the IP address stored in the token or session cookies?
Any information to help me understand this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Tim Doyle
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On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:23:54 -0500 "Tim Doyle" tim@greenscourt.com wrote:
A user of a wiki that I manage reported that during a half hour period, she found herself logged out and had to log in again. She did not view the logout screen - she just realized that she could no longer edit and realized that she wasn't logged in. She has not had this problem before, and the problem appears to have gone away now. She connects via wireless in her office.
Does anyone have any idea of what might have caused this? Could she have been having dropped connections on her wireless? Is the IP address stored in the token or session cookies?
Any information to help me understand this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Tim Doyle
Check the settings in your php.ini file for "session.gc_maslifetime".
; After this number of seconds, stored data will be seen as 'garbage' and ; cleaned up by the garbage collection process. session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
1440 seconds is 24 minutes. If, while editing a page, you don't refresh the session on some way (like "Show preview") the the session will expire.
Hi,
There is anyway to use the tags <include> and <includeonly> and <noinclude> in normal pages besides templates?
I think that this would be a terrific advice.
Thanks a lot, mauro.
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