Hi Brion,
Note that if you log in with the 'remember my
login' option checked, the
session is automatically reopened should it expire, until up to 30 days
later.
How can I prevent MediaWiki from expiring my session without the
'remember my
login' option checked? The expiring session is not transparent for normal users
and they won't preview their changes before saving it. They also won't copy
their changes to clipboard before clicking on the save-button. So again: How can
change this behavior. This timeout is surely configurable and one hour is too
short at all!!
Kind regards,
Frank
Brion Vibber schrieb:
> Adam Nielsen wrote:
>>>> but in my php.ini there are only timeouts set in seconds and noting
>>>> above 90 seconds. Also in the apache-confs there is nothing to find
>>>> about this.
>>> I've gone overnight with editing and haven't been logged out, so
it's
>>> definitely possible. In my php.ini there's an option called
>>> "session.cookie_lifetime" which apparently means "until the
browser is
>>> restarted." Maybe that's it? (Assuming cookies are working for
your
>>> sessions and it's not falling back to another method that times out
>>> sooner.)
>
> The session may expire earlier than the cookie; the server has no way of
> knowing when the browser leaves.
>
Note that if you log in with the 'remember my
login' option checked, the
session is automatically reopened should it expire, until up to 30 days
later.
>
>>> Either way if you've been away for a while just open another link (like
>>> the main page) in a new window/tab - log in there if required, and then
>>> go back and save your changes in the original window/tab.
>
> Personally, I pull out the 'preview' button for this sort of case. Once
> you're sure the session is reestablished, you can click 'save' in
> confidence. :)
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
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