how to make it so Drupal never logs me out?

Posted by joachim on May 7, 2010 at 10:27am

I have lots of test installations of Drupal on my localhost.

Every so often, I find I am logged out of one and have to log back in.

How can I change it so this never happens?

Comments

sessions?

Posted by SangersDrupalDude on May 7, 2010 at 10:29am

Configure the lifetime of your sessions on the server so that they don't expire?

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I've no idea how to do

Posted by joachim on May 7, 2010 at 10:38am

I've no idea how to do that... googling 'mamp session lifetime' doesn't get me anything that looks likely. dsm($_SESSION); shows I have an empty array.

In your site's settings.php

Posted by cog.rusty on May 7, 2010 at 1:21pm

In your site's settings.php file you can see:

ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime',  2000000);  // 2,000,000 sec = 3.3 weeks = 23 days

That is a PHP integer, which on most systems can go up to 2 billion sec (23,000 days). No more, because then it wraps around to negative values. If you live forever you will have to login again.

Stay logged in

Posted by Drupalace on May 10, 2010 at 8:01am

If you'd like a module solution, you can try the Persistent Login module.

http://drupal.org/project/persistent_login

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