ACP Session timeout settings

[Chris Bell]

since the move to 4.1.x it seems that ACP has a more restrictive timeout of roughly 30min
id like to be able to control the timeout settings through ACP settings in the future,

for the time being; where can i modify currently imposed ACP timeout settings?

[Arni]

Truth be told that would interest me too. 

[wimg]

Any solution yet?

I am really gettign stupidly annoyed by it. In addiion, I hat losing changes when still typing and or checkign out things. I donn't particularly want to save every few minutes if I am still figurign out what I need to set up.

Also, the time-out is way less than 30 minutes on my installation of 4.5.4.

Thank you in advance!

Kind regards, Wim

[bfarber]

It's actually tied to your PHP configuration, which I believe times out sessions somewhere around 20 minutes by default without going to do the math. That said, there is a change in 4.5.5 that addresses this concern.

[wimg]

22 hours ago, bfarber said:

It's actually tied to your PHP configuration, which I believe times out sessions somewhere around 20 minutes by default without going to do the math. That said, there is a change in 4.5.5 that addresses this concern.

That is marvelous, thank you.

Since you mention PHP-configuration, which variables need to be configured (while we wait for 4.5.5)?

I am asking because we have a very large board, (4.3 million posts) with many add-ons, we upgraded from 3.4.8 to 4.5.4, and find that as the only real admin, I need to answer a lot of questions to explain stuff to our memebrs, while in the mean time trying to configure everything correctly and conform our wishes through the ACP.

Thank you very much in advance!

Kindest regards, Wim

[bfarber]

https://www.php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php#ini.session.gc-maxlifetime