[imp] Frequent session timeout problem in IMP 3.1/Horde 2.1

[Patrick Boutilier]

Those values look Ok. The reason I asked for the session values in 
phpinfo is that I had a problem with session timing out after 24 minutes 
a couple of weeks ago even though I had 2 hours (7200 seconds) defined 
in php.ini. However the information from phpinfo was telling me my 
sessions would time out after 1440 seconds.

My problem was that first of all my php was not reading the php.ini file 
that I thought it was. When I got that problem solved I had a bogus line 
in my php.ini file (line wrap problem) before the session part so any 
variables defined after the bogus line reverted back to defaults.

The only other thing I can think of is that perhaps you have a value 
defined for

$conf['session_timeout'] = 0;

in horde.conf

?



Stanley Yuen wrote:
> Dear Patrick,
> 
> Here is the session information in the phpinfo() page.
> 
> session.auto_start        Off Off 
> session.cache_expire      180 180 
> session.cache_limiter     nocache nocache 
> session.cookie_domain     no value no value 
> session.cookie_lifetime   0 0 
> session.cookie_path       / / 
> session.cookie_secure     Off Off 
> session.entropy_file      no value no value 
> session.entropy_length    0 0 
> session.gc_maxlifetime    7200 7200 
> session.gc_probability    1 1 
> session.name              PHPSESSID PHPSESSID 
> session.referer_check     no value no value 
> session.save_handler      files files 
> session.save_path         /tmp /tmp 
> session.serialize_handler php php 
> session.use_cookies       On On 
> session.use_trans_sid     1 1 
> 
> Should we modify any session setting here?
> 
> Best regards,
> Stnley
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: imp-bounces at lists.horde.org [mailto:imp-bounces at lists.horde.org] On
> Behalf Of Patrick Boutilier
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 8:58 PM
> To: 'imp at lists.horde.org'
> Subject: Re: [imp] Frequent session timeout problem in IMP 3.1/Horde 2.1
> 
> 
> What does the phpinfo.php page say about sessions?
> 
> 
> 
> Stanley Yuen wrote:
> 
>>Dear all,
>>
>>Our site is using IMP 3.1 and horde 2.1.    We found that some users here
>>had suffered from a session timeout problem very often.    Intially we
>>believed this was a session limit problem and we then changed the 
>>corresponding values to the following:
>>
>>session.gc_maxlifetime = 7200   ; garbage collection is now 2 hours
>>session.gc_probability = 1     ; percentage chance for gc each call
>>session.cookie_lifetime = 0     ; 0 means until browser restarted
>>
>>But it did not solve his problem.   From the log file, we still found that
>>sessions would be expired in 15-30 minutes.  I tried to repeat this 
>>problem here but, unfortunately, I could not.
>>
>>Did any experts here encounter similar situation?   If yes, would you
>>suggest your solution on this?  BTW, session cookies has been enabled 
>>already and we use file store IMP sessions, below please find a short 
>>summary of Horde/IMP modules installed.
>>
>>Would the problem be related to the session problem before PHP 4.3?    And
>>should we upgrade our IMP to 3.2.2 in order to solve this problem?
>>
>>
>>Horde Versions
>>	Horde: 2.1 
>>	IMP: 3.1 (run IMP tests) 
>>	Turba: 1.1 
>>	Kronolith: 1.0 
>>	Mnemo: 1.0 
>>	Nag: 1.0
>>PHP Version
>>	View phpinfo() screen 
>>	PHP Version: 4.2.2 
>>	PHP Major Version: 4.2 
>>	PHP Minor Version: 2 
>>	PHP Version Classification: release 
>>	You are running a supported version of PHP.
>>PHP Module Capabilities
>>	FTP Support: Yes 
>>	Gettext Support: Yes 
>>	IMAP Support: Yes 
>>	LDAP Support: Yes 
>>	MCAL Support: Yes 
>>	Mcrypt Support: Yes 
>>	MySQL Support: Yes 
>>	PostgreSQL Support: Yes 
>>	XML Support: Yes 
>>Miscellaneous PHP Settings
>>	short_open_tag enabled: Yes 
>>	magic_quotes_runtime set to Off: Yes 
>>	file_uploads enabled: Yes 
>>PHP Sessions
>>	Session counter: 1 
>>	To unregister the session: click here 
>>PEAR
>>	PEAR - Yes 
>>	Recent PEAR - Yes 
>>	Mail::RFC822 - Yes 
>>	Log - Yes 
>>	DB - Yes 
>>
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Stanley Yuen
>>
>>Information Technology Services Centre,
>>The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
>>Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
>>
> 
> 
>