PHP sessions default timeout

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Do PHP sessions timeout by default - ie without any coding on my part would a user eventually be  logged out  after some time of inactivity

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Yes typically  a session will end after 20 minutes in PHP

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Yes  that s usually happens after 1440s  24 minutes

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It depends on the server configuration or the relevant directives session gc maxlifetime in php ini   Typically the default is 24 minutes  1440 seconds   but your webhost may have altered the default to something else

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You can change it in you php-configuration on your webserver  Search in php ini for   session gc maxlifetime   The value is set in Seconds

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You can set the session time out in php ini  The default value is 1440 seconds  session gc maxlifetime   1440    NOTE  If you are using the subdirectory option for storing session files          see session save path above   then garbage collection does  not          happen automatically   You will need to do your own garbage         collection through a shell script  cron entry  or some other method          For example  the following script would is the equivalent of         setting session gc maxlifetime to 1440  1440 seconds   24 minutes              find  path to sessions -cmin  24 -type f   xargs rm

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http   php net session gc-maxlifetime  session gc maxlifetime   1440  1440 seconds   24 minutes

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