I have a asp.net website hosted on the server. On localhost session timeout is working but on server it is not working (Around only 5 min).
I am using following code.
<sessionState
mode="InProc"
timeout="100" />
Please help me.
In some cases, when you increase session timeout, then run web application, session will still expire. There could be few possible reasons for this.
Notice that session timeout should be less than Application pool idle timeout, so if you increase session timeout, you have to increase application idle timeout too. Otherwise, application will get recycled. If application is recycled, sessions will expire automatically.
Also, if you use Forms Authentication, you'll probably need to increase forms timeout too, using markup code in web.config like this:
<system.web>
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms timeout="60"/>
</authentication>
...
</system.web>
getting more info..see this link http://www.beansoftware.com/ASP.NET-Tutorials/Session-Timeout-Expiration.aspx
And for keep alive your session timeout..find this example for that..
http://www.beansoftware.com/ASP.NET-Tutorials/Keep-Session-Alive.aspx
Set your session timeout minutes in IIS settings of your website on your server.
For IIS steps follow this https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725820(v=ws.10).aspx
I am using a session to pass a variable but on the server after logging in the session automatically expires after 2 -3 minutes, What could be the problem?
The webconfig file:
<sessionState timeout="1440" mode="InProc"></sessionState>
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms name="School" loginUrl="Login.aspx" defaultUrl="default.aspx"
timeout="1440" slidingExpiration="true" protection="All" path="/" />
</authentication>
I changed the timeout but it does not work.
Enable and check the logs and performance counters if the application pool restarts for some (configurable) reason, and loses it's sessions. Examples include if it runs out of memory (more likely if you have a shared app pool), if you have too many errors per minute (possibly "hidden" errors, triggered by for example search engine spiders) or if you are making changes to observed files or in observed folders (like web.config or bin\).
Depending on your session "uptime" requirements, since restarting the application pool will drop ("expire") all of your in process sessions, you could "fix" the issue by using an out of process session state store, like ASP.NET/Windows State Service/Server or SQL Server.
If you feel it's an IIS configuration or server issue more than a code issue, you can always ask on ServerFault.
Your timeout settings for Session and Forms looks fine but there are still many things can go side ways which causes you to think session is timed out. I suggest you to investigate the issue as follows:
Network setup: if your servers are load balanced, make sure the configuration will work with session.
App Pool: Check your application pool refresh/reset rules on IIS. Make sure there is no setting to refresh the pool every 20 requests or the likes.
Task Manager: Look at task manager and see how the IIS worker process doing (w3wp.exe). Is it getting killed off by antivirus program? If so, session will be timed out for sure.
Event log: Lastly, take a look at windows event log. see if there are event entries related to time out.
Add this to your Global.asax.cs
protected void Session_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Session.Timeout = 240;
}
I have user log in logic in my web app. after successful log in, i set the user id in Session, so i can keep track of the user. and in my master file page load event, i do
Session.timeout = 60
so session should timeout after an hour. but my session times out at around 10 - 20 minutes. What am i doing wrong? i bet it's obvious.
It is probably due to your IIS settings. In IIS the default timeout for a session is 20 min.
Use the IIS manager to change it.
Have you tried setting it in your web.config instead of server side code?
<configuration>
<system.web>
<sessionState
mode="InProc"
cookieless="true"
timeout="60" />
</system.web>
</configuration>
If your app is crashing and re-starting at all, your sessions will be lost.
I'd setup some Health Monitoring and setup a notification for your app re-starting. If it happen more often than your 20 minutes then something is crashing your app.
I am running an ASP.NET 2.0 application in IIS 6.0. I want session timeout to be 60 minutes rather than the default 20 minutes. I have done the following
Set <sessionState timeout="60"></sessionState>
in web.config.
Set session timeout to 60 minutes in IIS manager/Web site properties/ASP.NET configuration settings.
Set idle timeout to 60 minutes in application pool properties/performance.
I am still getting a session timeout at 20 minutes. Is there anything else I need to do?
Are you using Forms authentication?
Forms authentication uses it own value for timeout (30 min. by default). A forms authentication timeout will send the user to the login page with the session still active. This may look like the behavior your app gives when session times out making it easy to confuse one with the other.
<system.web>
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms timeout="50"/>
</authentication>
<sessionState timeout="60" />
</system.web>
Setting the forms timeout to something less than the session timeout can give the user a window in which to log back in without losing any session data.
I don't know about web.config or IIS.
But I believe that from C# code you can do it like
Session.Timeout = 60; // 60 is number of minutes
Use the following code block in your web.config file.
Here default session time out is 80 mins.
<system.web>
<sessionState mode="InProc" cookieless="false" timeout="80" />
</system.web>
Use the following link for Session Timeout with popup alert message.
Session Timeout Example
FYI:The above examples is done with devexpress popup control so you need to customize/replace devexpress popup control with normal popup control. If your using devexpress no need to customize
In my situation, it was Application Pool. It is set to restart when idle for xx mins. When I set it to not restart, it seems to use value from Web Config.
Do you have anything in machine.config that might be taking effect? Setting the session timeout in web.config should override any settings in IIS or machine.config, however, if you have a web.config file somewhere in a subfolder in your application, that setting will override the one in the root of your application.
Also, if I remember correctly, the timeout in IIS only affects .asp pages, not .aspx. Are you sure your session code in web.config is correct? It should look something like:
<sessionState
mode="InProc"
stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424"
stateNetworkTimeout="60"
sqlConnectionString="data source=127.0.0.1;Integrated Security=SSPI"
cookieless="false"
timeout="60"
/>
That is usually all that you need to do...
Are you sure that after 20 minutes, the reason that the session is being lost is from being idle though...
There are many reasons as to why the session might be cleared. You can enable event logging for IIS and can then use the event viewer to see reasons why the session was cleared...you might find that it is for other reasons perhaps?
You can also read the documentation for event messages and the associated table of events.
https://usefulaspandcsharp.wordpress.com/tag/session-timeout/
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms loginUrl="Login.aspx" name=".ASPXFORMSAUTH" timeout="60" slidingExpiration="true" />
</authentication>
<sessionState mode="InProc" timeout="60" />
If you are using Authentication, I recommend adding the following in web.config file.
In my case, users are redirected to the login page upon timing out:
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms defaultUrl="Login.aspx" timeout="120"/>
</authentication>
Since ASP.Net core 1.0 (vNext or whatever name is used for it) sessions are implemented differently.
I changed the session timeout value in Startup.cs, void ConfigureServices using:
services.AddSession(options => options.IdleTimeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(42));
Or if you want to use the appsettings.json file, you can do something like:
// Appsettings.json
"SessionOptions": {
"IdleTimeout": "00:30:00"
}
// Startup.cs
services.AddSession(options => options.IdleTimeout = TimeSpan.Parse(Config.GetSection("SessionOptions")["IdleTimeout"]));
You can find the setting here in IIS:
It can be found at the server level, web site level, or app level under "ASP".
I think you can set it at the web.config level here. Please confirm this for yourself.
<configuration>
<system.web>
<!-- Session Timeout in Minutes (Also in Global.asax) -->
<sessionState timeout="1440"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
The default session timeout is defined into IIS to 20 minutes
Follow the procedures below for each site hosted on the IIS 8.5 web
Open the IIS 8.5 Manager.
Click the site name.
Select "Configuration Editor" under the "Management" section.
From the "Section:" drop-down list at the top of the configuration
editor, locate "system.web/sessionState".
Set the "timeout" to "00:20:00 or less”, using the lowest value
possible depending upon the application. Acceptable values are 5
minutes for high-value applications, 10 minutes for medium-value
applications, and 20 minutes for low-value applications.
In the "Actions" pane, click "Apply".
IIS sessions timeout value is for classic .asp applications only, this is controlled on IIS configuration.
In your case For ASP.NET apps, only the web.config-specified timeout value applies.
if you are want session timeout for website than remove
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms timeout="50"/>
</authentication>
tag from web.config file.
The Timeout property specifies the time-out period assigned to the Session object for the application, in minutes. If the user does not refresh or request a page within the time-out period, the session ends.
IIS 6.0: The minimum allowed value is 1 minute and the maximum is
1440 minutes.
Session.Timeout = 600;
After changing the session timeout value in IIS, Kindly restart the IIS.
To achieve this go to command prompt. Type IISRESET and press enter.
I'm running a website using ASP.NET 2.0. Every now and then (10+ times per day on 100+ users daily) I receive this error: Forms authentication failed - ticket supplied has expired.
Here's my web.config snippet:
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms name=".CLLSAUTH" loginUrl="login.aspx" protection="All" path="/" timeout="60" />
</authentication>
I've looked at several solutions, someone mentioned the session timeout, but it's also 60 minutes in my config. Two more things, I'm not running a webfarm, and the app is not being recycled around the time the error occurs.
Any clues?
I'm not sure what your question is... In this case, when a user has their browser open for more than an hour, their authentication cookie times out. The next time they send a request to the server BAM.
Try adding slidingExpiration="true" to the form element.
That way the timeout restarts every time a user hits the server.
This could possibly also be because IIS recycled your worker process. You'd have to check your logs to see if this happened before somebody caused this error.
If your application is running on different servers, there might be an issue with the machine key in the forms authentication cookie being rejected because it's originated on a different server.
But it doesn't sound like you're running on a web farm from your question.