Forum's Auto Log off

[bazza_1964]

This is getting annoying....

I just spent several MINUTES ( not even 20 ), attempting to post a response in a forum, and thanks to SOME setting here, the forums auto log off tendencies have erased everything I wrote( YOU CANNOT POST BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT LOGGED IN)'

Am I missing something? Is this a setting I'm supposed to change on my end? Or is it something that just Twitters?


bazza, annoyed.

[CodeRedFox]

It happens to me as well I asked Gaz about it and he didnt set anything up. I figured it was firefox or some addon doing it.

[Lemon]

I always copy paste my 'long text' into a word document or note pad document. That way, if it all crashes you dont have to rewrite it.

[bazza_1964]

Yeah, duly noted...I am on Firefox, and I usually do copy and paste long ones, lol. Was just "riffing away" for a few minutes, didn't plan on it becoming an essay. Oh well!

thanks guys,

bazza

[Shaihuluid]

This is getting annoying....

I just spent several MINUTES ( not even 20 ), attempting to post a response in a forum, and thanks to SOME setting here, the forums auto log off tendencies have erased everything I wrote( YOU CANNOT POST BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT LOGGED IN)'

Am I missing something? Is this a setting I'm supposed to change on my end? Or is it something that just SUCKS?


bazza, annoyed.

yeah, it's irritating.

But it's also quite helpfull just copy-and-paste, and you'll have good security. besides of which, if you enter your username/password correctly when ask, your message will still get posted

[gazzthompson]

im on firefox and have it so it saves passwords, yet if i refresh after 10mins im logged out -_-

[Vege]

Default PHP session timeout is 24mins, that can come up pretty fast.
vBulletin <3.5 default is 15mins according to wikipedia.

[CodeRedFox]

For me its been a recent change.

[BloodBane611]

I was having a problem with firefox logging me out, but i made some changes and now it's fine.

I think I changed my privacy settings by customizing what firefox clears on shutdown. I set it to just clear the cache. I know I changed something else to do with cookies as well, can't remember what though.

[AfterDune]

Never have any problems... I never have to login to the site . Perhaps it's the FF session manager keeping things alive, I don't know. Even if I've been away for three weeks, I'm still logged in (I do tick that "remember me" thingy, so maybe that's it...).

[RedAlertSF]

I'm always logged in too. I've never had any problems with this.

CTRL + SHIFT + T brings back your previous page with all the text you had written in it (at least on Firefox). Although I'm not sure if it will help in this issue.

[AfterDune]

CTRL+SHIFT+T reopens a closed tab for me
(Tab Mix Plus is awesome!)

[DankE_SPB]

clear cookies and then login, will solve the problem

[alberto_di_gio]

me haves Firefox... me haves no problems

[Artnez]

Clearing your cookies doesn't solve the problem. Also has nothing to do with firefox.

This is a setting in the PHP configuration file (php.ini) called session.cookie_lifetime and session.gc_maxlifetime. By default, it's set to 20 minutes.

By default, session.cookie_lifetime should be set to 0. This means that your session cookie will expire only when you close your web browser (this doesn't apply if you check "Remember Me" when you login). I confirmed this by looking at my cookie expiry dates.

session.gc_maxlifetime is what's causing the problem here. "gc" stands for garbage collection, and what it's basically doing is deleting all inactive sessions every X amount of seconds. Increasing this number will ensure that the lifetime of a session lasts longer than 20 minutes.

The reason some of you are unaffected by this is you check the "Remember Me" option when you login.

[Vege]

Clearing your cookies doesn't solve the problem. Also has nothing to do with firefox.

This is a setting in the PHP configuration file (php.ini) called session.cookie_lifetime and session.gc_maxlifetime. By default, it's set to 20 minutes.

By default, session.cookie_lifetime should be set to 0. This means that your session cookie will expire only when you close your web browser (this doesn't apply if you check "Remember Me" when you login). I confirmed this by looking at my cookie expiry dates.

session.gc_maxlifetime is what's causing the problem here. "gc" stands for garbage collection, and what it's basically doing is deleting all inactive sessions every X amount of seconds. Increasing this number will ensure that the lifetime of a session lasts longer than 20 minutes.

The reason some of you are unaffected by this is you check the "Remember Me" option when you login.

The default is still 24 Min and vBulleting uses cookies only for it's own login handler if im not mistaken.
PHP: Runtime Configuration - Manual

[Rhino]

I'm on FF and I have no problems. Try cleaning your cookies out and starting from scratch

[Outlawz7]

I'm on FF and have been getting logged out ever since I joined the forums, but don't care; if you post something and it logs you out when you click 'post', just login again and continue.

[epoch]

Had this a few weeks ago in Firefox. Cookie clean worked for me too ......

[killonsight95]

i hav't had this problem myself i dunno whats wrong xD