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Re: Session times out too soon

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:36:46 -0700

Posted the message 'Re: Session times out too soon' on the Active Server Pages forum.

I also faced the same problem with a site where around 400 users were hitting at the same time. The solution is that we need a better session management.
I will suggest you to change your web.config code like this.

<sessionState
mode="StateServer"
cookieless="false"
timeout="20"/>

Here I have changed the session state to a seperate worker process (ASP state management server).

It is recommended to move your session into the stateserver or SQL server state management in the production environment.

Note: You need to start the 'ASP.NET State Service' windows service on the web server in order to make this code work.

This will solve your problem related to session getting timed out before 20 minutes

<a href=http://www.johnleesam.com>Johnlee Sam</a>

: I'm attempting to use a Session variable to store user information.
: I've got a main login page, and once I validate their login against
: my database, I store their login ID in Session. On subsequent
: pages, I've got code like this:
:
: IF Session("loginID") = "" THEN
: Response.redirect("default.asp")
: END IF
:
: so that if a user's session times out, or somebody tries to enter
: the middle of the site without logging in, they're redirected to the
: main login page.
:
: I haven't done anything with Session.Timeout, so the timeout should
: default to 20 minutes, but sometimes it seems like it only takes 3-4
: minutes of inactivity for my session to timeout.
:
: What gives?
:
: I'm running the site on a Windows 2000 server, IIS 5. I don't have
: frames, but I do have some pages loaded via Javascript (i.e.,
: window.open).
:
: I'm about this close to recoding everything to get away from Session
: variables (and I know there are real reasons to do this anyway), but
: that's going to be such a pain in the...
:
: Thanks.
:

<a href=http://www.johnleesam.com>Johnlee Sam</a>

Re: Cannot set Session.Timeout.

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:34:07 -0700

Posted the message 'Re: Cannot set Session.Timeout.' on the IIS forum.

I will suggest you to change your web.config code like this.

<sessionState
mode="StateServer"
cookieless="false"
timeout="1440"/>

Here I have changed the session state to a seperate worker process (ASP state management server).

It is recommended to move your session into the stateserver or SQL server state management in the production environment.

Note: You need to start the 'ASP.NET State Service' windows service on the web server in order to make this code work.

This will solve your problem related to session getting timed out before 24 hours

<a href=http://www.johnleesam.com>Johnlee Sam</a>
<a href=http://www.fmcgdirectory.com>FMCG Directory</a>

: I am running IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. I
: am unable to set the Session.Timeout property to 1440 minutes (24
: hours), which is the supposed maximum. Whenever I set it to this
: value using ASP, the session still times out after 20 minutes, which
: is the default. I have also set the Session timeout to 1440 minutes
: in the IIS property page, but this was also ignored. What I am I
: missing?
:
:
:

Re: Session Variable loses its value

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:27:33 -0700

Posted the message 'Re: Session Variable loses its value' on the Active Server Pages forum.

Session may be getting expired before you pass to the next page.
Well... I will recommend you to change your web.config code like this.

<sessionState
mode="StateServer"
cookieless="false"
timeout="20"/>

Here I have changed the session state to a seperate worker process (ASP state management server).

It is recommended to move your session into the stateserver or SQL server state management in the production environment.

Note: You need to start the 'ASP.NET State Service' windows service on the web server in order to make this code work.

This will solve your problem related to session getting timed out before 20 minutes

FMCG Directory
: Well, i got a site. It works perfectly most of the time, but
: sometime the session variable don't pass on correctly, and it messes
: up the whole thing. So is there any good solution to it.
: P.S. My session variables are used to keep login status
: