Session Timeout in v1.8.1

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I know that previously we were able to adjust this in the global php settings. Now with everything running inside the Docker container how can this be adjusted? Thanks

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The container ships with the PHP default of 1440 seconds.

There’s no way built in currently to customise that with config.env, but I can add that in the next release.

In the interim, you would need to get a terminal inside your web container, and adjust the php.ini file.

So, run docker ps

That will give you a list of running containers. In that list, find the one with cms-web in the name. This is your web container.

Run docker exec -ti name bash, where name is the container name from before.

You now have a shell inside the container. Edit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini:

apt-get install nano
nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Make your change to session.gc_maxlifetime

Ctrl+o Enter
Ctrl+x
exit
docker stop name
docker start name
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That worked perfectly, thank you.

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This is now included in the 1.8.2 container.

Simply add

CMS_PHP_SESSION_GC_MAXLIFETIME=9600

to your config.env file before starting the upgrade, and it will set that for you. 9600 can be adjusted to whatever value you want to use.