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JustSteveKing
JustSteveKing

Reputation: 968

Session Lifetime on PhpMyAdmin

I have tried multiple way to extend this, so as to not have to log in every 1440 seconds on a development server. Yet the problem still persists.

Could anybody advise on the "correct" way to achieve this? I want to set to cookie session timeout to 3600 (1 hour) instead of the default 1440.

I have tried:

Each attempt I have made sure to restart apache so as to load the new configuration. However the problem still persists.

Any help/advise will be much appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3128

Answers (2)

beni0888
beni0888

Reputation: 1244

You have to edit phpmyadmin's configuration file (config.inc.php) and set the variable $cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] = 3600, I've put it at the end of the file.

Next, you have to increase the php session timeout if it is lower than 3600 seconds, to do that you have to set session.gc_maxlifetime in the php.ini file.

After that you have to restart apache.

I have done it so and it works on Ubuntu 14.04.

Upvotes: 2

Hardy Mathew
Hardy Mathew

Reputation: 714

First you need to verified that is ini_set allowed on your system or not?

To find out what the default (file-based-sessions) session timeout value on the server is you can view it through a ini_get command: 

$currentTimeoutInSecs = ini_get(’session.gc_maxlifetime’);

// php.ini setting required for session timeout.

ini_set(’session.gc_maxlifetime’, 3600);
ini_set(‘session.gc_probability’,1);
ini_set(‘session.gc_divisor’,1);


session_set_cookie_params(3600);   

session_start(); // ready to go!

if you want to change the session.cookie_lifetime.

This required in some common file because to get the session values in whole application we need to write session_start(); to each file then only will get $_SESSION global variable values.

$sessionCookieExpireTime=8*60*60;
session_set_cookie_params($sessionCookieExpireTime);
session_start();

Upvotes: 1

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