Session timeout set at 0 - can't login

singerp

Hi,

I wanted to disable the session timeout, so I set the session timeout in system settings to 0, and now anytime I try to login it logs me out right away. Could you help me where to manually change this value? I looked in the var/www/html/idoit/src folder and found a session.time variable in the globals.inc.php file but it had a wrong value of 300 instead of 0 so I think it needs to be somewhere else.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Patrik

jkondek

Hello Patrik,

you can set the session timeout in the system database, table isys_settings, key session.time.
Check it out!

Regards,
jkondek

Montt

Ive tried to change the value on database session.time from 0 to 600, but the system ignores it. Im still getting error message "Your session timed out! (0 secs)"

goyertp

@Montt:

Ive tried to change the value on database session.time from 0 to 600, but the system ignores it. Im still getting error message "Your session timed out! (0 secs)"

hi,

have you solved this problem?

Regards

Philipp

linus

Hello everyone,

I am aghast at this bug, it's been around for much too long
Anyway though
I have the exact same issue, and no the DB hack does not help at all
Any further ideas?

Cheers

linus

linux_it

You can edit file src/globals.inc.php located in idoit webroot directory

Find and comment string:
//$g_config["sess_time"] = isys_settings::get('session.time', 300);

Temporary change it to:
$g_config["sess_time"] = 900;

After fixing timeout in GUI, you can delete temporary string and uncomment original

(Tested on i-doit v. 1.4.8 )

_Chekov_

Afaik,

this does not apply for the recent versions of i-doit as the value for the session timeout
has been defined in isys_application.class.php file which is located in
src/classes/core/ from the web root.

Best regards,

Chekov

Troff

For all those, who have this problem, I found out the solution for the V4.1.15-8-default:

1st: keep cool (it took me several coffees to calm down on this silly thing. If the value for timeout is 0, so the setting is off or the value is wrong. Why the heck, wasn't this catched by the program??)

2nd: Login on your webserver, go into the i-doit-folder in the apache-webfiles (f.e. SuSE: /srv/www/htdocs/i-doit/…)
3rd: find the globals.inc.php
4th: open it with your favourite text-editor
5th: find and copy the following line:


$g_config["sess_time"]   = isys_settings::get('session.time', 300);

6th: uncomment one of the original one with two slashes


// $g_config["sess_time"]   = isys_settings::get('session.time', 300);

7th: change the copied line:

FROM


$g_config["sess_time"]   = isys_settings::get('session.time', 300);

TO


$g_config["sess_time"]   = 900;

8th: SAVE the file, but leave it open in your text-editor

9th: Login to i-doit and change the value for Session Timeout in the Settings. 3600 (1 hour) might be a good value. Save the sessings

10th: uncomment in the globals.inc.php


// $g_config["sess_time"]   = isys_settings::get('session.time', 300);

and comment the line


$g_config["sess_time"]   = 900;

That's it.