[alijaved]

Dear members,

 

I want to increase the session time for users/admins to infinite or until they log out themselves. I do not want the users to log out automatically after 2 hours.

 

I know there are some changes required in config.pho file, can someone please drop me a line of code that I have to put there? 

 

Please drop me a full line of code that I can replace with 2 hours of session time, I need an infinite login session for customers and admin panel. I never want them to log out until they log out themselves.

 

 

My Cs-Cart version is 4.7.2

[The Tool]

// Session live time
define('SESSION_ALIVE_TIME', SECONDS_IN_HOUR * 2); // 2 hours

[eComLabs]

In the config.php file which is located in the root directory of CS-Cart installation

[Ginestra]

On this, do many of you bother to change this? Any good reason why non-logged in is what seems to me to be very low (2 hours)?

[tbirnseth]

It's effectively an idle time and is used for security purposes.  I.e. if you're away from your desk for more than 2 hrs, then the session becomes inactive until you re-login.  

 

2hrs seems a reasonable amount of time to expect interaction with your site before effectively logging you out.

[alijaved]

// Session live time
define('SESSION_ALIVE_TIME', SECONDS_IN_HOUR * 2); // 2 hours

 

 

For infinite, can I make it as following, for 1 year? 


 

// Session live time
define('SESSION_ALIVE_TIME', SECONDS_IN_HOUR * 8760); // 8760 hours in 1 year

[eComLabs]

Yes, you can if you do not worry about security aspects

[alijaved]

Thanks guys it worked great

[alaa]

Yes, you can if you do not worry about security aspects

 

I did make it for one year on my server. However, this has slower down my website dramatically. The Database is getting larger day by day. 

 

Is there any thing else I can do to extend authenticated users' logged-in state while not affecting the server? 

[eComLabs]

Did you examine which tables have biggest size?

[alaa]

Did you examine which tables have biggest size?

 

I found out that cscart_sessions table has huge data (almost 90% of the total database data). 

[eComLabs]

Looks like 1 year is too much for CS-Cart. Try to use lower  value. CS-Cart will delete outdated sessions

[alaa]

Looks like 1 year is too much for CS-Cart. Try to use lower  value. CS-Cart will delete outdated sessions

Thank you eComLabs for your reply. 

 

I have a question, please. What I want to achieve is to extend the logged-in status of the authinticated users. 

 

I understand that we have two tables: 

 

cscart_sessions which stores sessions for unauthinticated users. 

cscart_stored_sessions for storing sessions for logged-in users.

 

I kept session_alive_time parameter in config.php as is (2 hours) because it affects users who are not logged-in. 

I set sessions_storage_alive_time in config.php to 1-year as it stores data for logged-in users. 

 

However, this doesn't work. Still logged-in users are getting logged-out after two hours!

Is my understanding correct? 

 

Thank you again. 

[tbirnseth]

SESSIONS_STORAGE_ALIVE_TIME only affects data (like products in cart) and how long they are retained.  It will NOT affect how long a user can be idle during their login.

 

I'd suggest you be more pragmatic in how long you allow a user's session to remain active while idle.  There are several security concerns as well as general usage patterns.  Right now its 2 hrs. You might consider upping it to 24.  But not sure I'd go beyond this give the amount of session data that is stored per logged in user.  Setting it to 1 year effectively says "never see data as stale" which which is unrealistic.

 

Otherwise, beef up your database server to a SAN and implement a caching server to cache recently accessed data.  I.e. put your DB on a separate server designed for dealing with large database tables and caching.

[beta]

hi,

Latest cs-cart change the session time configuration from config.php to tygh/session.php, but

    protected static $ttl = (AREA === 'C') ? SESSIONS_STORAGE_ALIVE_TIME : SESSION_ALIVE_TIME; // Edited By Beta

not affect and not Work "AREA"!

how increase session alive time in customers area?

[The Tool]

It's still defined in /config.php

// Session live time
define('SESSION_ALIVE_TIME', SECONDS_IN_HOUR * 2); // 2 hours