[Mediawiki-l] Timeout after one hour when editing an article with non-permanent login [8411]

[Raquel]

On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 14:13:06 +0100
"bl at vitronic.com" <bl at vitronic.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> when I am logged in non-permanently on MediaWiki 1.6.8 (with
> LDAP-Auth and PageProtecion) and edit an article for over one hour
> (e.g. start editing, go to a meeting and leave the window
> unchanged, come back and finish article or also if I spend one
> hour with pure writing and editing the article) I receive the
> error-message that I am currently not logged on, when I want to
> save the article. Logging in again with the given link as well as
> navigating with the browser's back-button, flushes the cache
> (maybe because of the disablecache() in PageProtection) without
> saving my changes. So my work of at least one hour is deleted.
> 
> I don't know why MediaWiki has a timeout with runs out after one
> hour and I also don't know how to configure this value.
> 
> Does anybody know, which parameter is reasonable for this
> behavior?
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> Frank
> 
> 

I'm not certain, but I believe this is handled in your server's
php.ini file.

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Raquel
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