[horde] Horde forgets session

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Lukas Haase <lukashaase at gmx.at>:

> On 2013-08-06 5:45, Jan Schneider wrote:
>>
>> Zitat von Lukas Haase <lukashaase at gmx.at>:
>>
>>> On 2013-08-01 10:49, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
>>>> Quoting Lukas Haase <lukashaase at gmx.at>:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I installed horde5 Webmail Edition from pear. I have the big problem
>>>>> that horde always looses the session, sometimes very quickly (after
>>>>> clicking on the first link) sometimes 2 minutes later. But the session
>>>>> should last "forever":
>>>>>
>>>>> $conf['session']['name'] = 'Horde';
>>>>> $conf['session']['use_only_cookies'] = true;
>>>>> $conf['session']['timeout'] = 0;
>>>>> $conf['session']['cache_limiter'] = 'nocache';
>>>>> $conf['session']['max_time'] = 72000;
>>>>> $conf['auth']['checkip'] = true;
>>>>> $conf['auth']['checkbrowser'] = true;
>>>>
>>>> Correction: this session will not last forever - it will automatically
>>>> timeout after 72000 seconds (which is correct; sessions should never be
>>>> non-expiring).
>>>
>>> Yes, that's true but for my tests "infinite" ;-)
>>>
>>>> But you haven't provided us with your session backend storage
>>>> information.  That's the important element here.
>>>
>>> Oh sorry. Do you mean the session handler with that?
>>>
>>> $conf['sessionhandler']['type'] = 'Builtin';
>>> $conf['sessionhandler']['hashtable'] = false;
>>>
>>> I can also post whole conf.php if this helps.
>>> I also upgraded the database from horde3 (from Debian squeeze - horde is
>>> not included in wheezy, therefor I upgraded). Maybe there could be an
>>> issue?
>>
>> Unlikely. This looks pretty much like a default setup which works
>> anywhere else.
>>
>> Do you get "session expired" messages when being logged out? Or are you
>> silently thrown back to the login screen?
>
> Dear Michael and Jan,
>
> Yes, I was silently thrown back to the login screen.
>
> Interestingly it seems that it started to work at some point.
>
> It runs for some days now so I hope it is safe to say that the problem
> is solved (without having been fixed).

So you haven't upgraded any packages/software components since then?

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]