This ASPX app I'm working on keeps logging me out mid-session. I tried changing this:
<sessionState mode="InProc" timeout="24" />
To
<sessionState mode="InProc" cookieless="true" timeout="1440" />
But it still times out every couple of minutes (sometimes sooner). I've never programed in ASPX before and I'm just making basic layout changes (removing three nested tables, etc.), but it's horrible how many times I have to log in to do even the simplest things.
Any clue what else might be timing me out if not the session state? I didn't write any of this...
The InProc and the session is not keep the logging authentication. This authentication is done using some other cookie that if you loose it you logged out.
There are two points to look - if you move from http to https and if you move from www. to non www. pages.
To solve that go to your web.config and check if you have setup that properties correctly (especial the domain).
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms timeout="50" path="/" requireSSL="true" cookieless="UseCookies" domain="domain.com" />
</authentication>
Also check on roleManager and on httpCookies that you have setup the domain.
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I must be doing something wrong. I have followed instructions to set the timeout on my forms authentication app, but the app never renews the cookie and will time out about every 15mins or so.
I must be missing something that is so obvious it is not mentioned in the literature.
Here is my config info:
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms loginUrl="~/Account/Login" defaultUrl="~/" timeout="120" slidingExpiration="true" cookieless="UseCookies" />
</authentication>
and the session state
<sessionState mode="InProc" customProvider="DefaultSessionProvider" timeout="120">
...
I have tried sliding or not sliding--same time out happens.
Dumb questions: do I need something in the code behind (VB) on every page to make sure the postback renews the authentication?
If you are browsing your web application from IIS then check the check the Idle Time-Out(minutes) property under "Process Model" of application pool.
If it is 20 minutes. You should change that property value.
I have been developing an ASP.NET MVC 4 (with razor) WebApp, that worked great in Debug, and even in Release on my local machine.
Now I uploaded it to the server, and while you are navigating it suddenly, from time to time closes your user session, asking for username and password again.
Any idea of why? Maybe I am losing some configuration or settings requirements, but its driving me mad.
It looks like you are confusing Session with Authentication. You probably need to enable FormsAuthentication.SlidingExpiration Property so you aren't automatically logged out.
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms loginUrl="member_login.aspx"
name=".ASPXFORMSAUTH"
cookieless="UseCookies"
requireSSL="true"
slidingExpiration="TRUE" />
</authentication>
I think that your Session expires after 20 minutes. take a look here:
What is default session timeout in ASP.NET?
Also you'll find the solution for your problem, that is to set Session timeout..
When running locally, my site runs fine. However when on the live site, after around 10 seconds of inactivity I keep getting logged out.
My web config line for authentication looks like the following:
<forms name="RaiseFLAuthentication" loginUrl="home.aspx" cookieless="UseCookies" defaultUrl="/myPredictions.aspx" timeout="240" slidingExpiration="false"/>
I have also tried putting <sessionState timeout="30"></sessionState>but this hasn't worked either.
A second issue I am having is that although i have set the defaulturl to myPredictions.aspx, when I go to the url www.website.co.uk and log in, it does not redirect here, it stays as default url. Although again, running locally I have no problem.
Can anyone suggest why either of these things are happening and how to fix this?
Here are my answers to your questions:
1) This one is a bit tricky because you mentioned it's working fine locally but try this (assuming you are using InProc session mode):
<sessionState mode="InProc" cookieless="true" timeout="30" />
2) It seem like you are missing the tilde (~) in your defaultUrl attribute.
<forms name="RaiseFLAuthentication" loginUrl="home.aspx" cookieless="UseCookies" defaultUrl="~/myPredictions.aspx" timeout="240" slidingExpiration="false" />
The time out is controlled by the sessionState element, the default is 20 minutes if a timeout is not specified, so if all you get is 10 seconds I would look elsewhere in your code for the cause of the problem.
With regard to your re-direct issue. This has already been answered here.
I have floder in wwwroot that contain all the pages for a website.
the problem is that session and cookies are not save between the pages, although that the session is recognized, but always empty!
What do I have to do in order to enable session and cookies between the pages?
I tried adding this line to web.config
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms cookieless="AutoDetect" domain="" timeout="10" protection="All" />
</authentication>
And I turn the folder to an Application throw the IIS manager tools.
but nothing :(
the IIS version is 7
Thanks for any help
Have you checked that session state is enabled in IIS7?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725624%28WS.10%29.aspx
You also need to ensure that you have the session state config setting setup in your web.config in your application.
Here's an example of mine
<sessionState mode="InProc" stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424" sqlConnectionString="data source=127.0.0.1;Trusted_Connection=yes" cookieless="false" timeout="20" />
You should check out
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178586.aspx
Edit: updated the above link, the previous one was defunct.
I have a url like http://www.foo.com/NewPage.aspx?pageid=10. However to some users this gets displayed as http://://www.foo.com/NewPage.aspx?pageid=10&
Now i read that the AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 gets appended as in my web.config since I have my web.config as <sessionState cookieless="AutoDetect"/> whereas it should be <sessionState cookieless="UseCookies"/>
What I wanted to know is that is there an issue doing this change.
Try <sessionState mode="InProc" cookieless="false" timeout="20" />
for ref remove AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport
or use this in web config,
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms cookieless="UseCookies"/>
</authentication>
Browsing through this issue i found in one article
You could change your setting from
cookieless="AutoDetect" to
cookieless="UseCookies". This will get
rid of it, but users without cookies
won't be able to pass session objects
around. Depending on how you are using
sessions, this may or may not matter.
You could also write a routine that
sniffs search robots and rewrite the
Url, or write .browser files for the
search engines you are concerned
about.
For ref: Remove cookie support