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I may have done a silly thing

  • 2009/3/10 14:21

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I'm using XOOPS as a class website with very young children - 6 & 7 year olds.

When they are working at writing things in various modules (posting comments etc) they take a very long time.
By the time they press the submit button for their work they've been logged out and they losed their work. (The session time was set at 15 minutes by default)

I had the brainwave of setting the session time at a longer period of time like 60 minutes. So I did.

Now I read this in the FAQs

You can set the session length in the system admin -> general settings -> preferences page, but I'd like to add a note of caution. Since XOOPS uses a database for its sessions, keeping them alive for a long time will limit the number of users you can have on a site, as the available connections to the database aren't cleaned up when people leave. This will eventually clog the database, and thus the site.

Reference (Herko- forum aswer)

and sure enough I can log in but the site just keeps reloading the front page.

Hmmm - is there a short answer for this? Does the problem sound like the site is "clogged". Will it unclog if I just wait?


Andrew
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Catzwolf
Re: I may have done a silly thing

  • 2009/3/10 14:28

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I would tend to actually ignore that.

From what you are talking about I don't think you have 1000's of users using the web application at the same time? Correct?

From what you are describing, this could actually be a server configuration issue and I would discuss this with who ever deals with the server that XOOPS is installed on.

Plus I would check the php error logs, database logs to see if there is anything there that might give a clue to why it is taking so long and killing the session.

Catz
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Re: I may have done a silly thing

  • 2009/3/10 22:32

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Quote:

catzwolf_ wrote:
I would tend to actually ignore that.

From what you are talking about I don't think you have 1000's of users using the web application at the same time? Correct?

From what you are describing, this could actually be a server configuration issue and I would discuss this with who ever deals with the server that XOOPS is installed on.

Plus I would check the php error logs, database logs to see if there is anything there that might give a clue to why it is taking so long and killing the session.

Catz


It's actually instantaneous - you log ion on the front page, the "Thankyou for logging in" page comes up and it then dumps you back to the front page.

I tried logging in then entering the URL for other pages and got a "You are not authorised..." message.

The site was working fine at 1.00pm yesterday (and has worked perfectly on that server for 12 months.)

I changed the session log out time in general preferences and (since the thing said that this only works if I enable session id) clicked yes on "enable session thingy" (the technical stuff isn't my strong point)

After that no-one could log in. Or rather they could log in, get welcomed and then not be allowed in.

I'll check the php logs and the database.
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zyspec
Re: I may have done a silly thing

  • 2009/3/11 2:32

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What version of XOOPS are you using? If I recall there was a problem with sessions in one of the previous versions. I remember something with regenerateID and sessions not being cleared correctly.
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Re: I may have done a silly thing

  • 2009/3/11 3:17

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Xoops version 2.0.x - can't recall exactly because I can't get to the administrator section of the site.
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ghia
Re: I may have done a silly thing

  • 2009/3/11 11:19

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Your XOOPS version is in /include/version.php and you may try this.
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Catzwolf
Re: I may have done a silly thing

  • 2009/3/11 11:38

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If you have access to phpMyAdmin you can manually edit these values back to their originals and hopefully get you back into your website.

Always create a backup of your XOOPS database before you start manually editing it. That way you can restore it if something terrible happens.

1. Open phpMyAdmin and locate the database you are using for your website (The Name you used when installing Xoops)
2. When you have located this database, find a table that ends with 'config' in the lefthand window. (for example if your XOOPS database prefix is 'xoops_', then the table will look like 'xoops_config'.)
3. Once you have completed the previous step, in the main window click on the 'Browser Tab'.
4. Look down the table for a fields and change the values to the ones below:
'session_expire' = 15,
'session_name' = xoops_session,
'use_mysession' = 0

If you don't feel comfortable doing this, I would suggest that ask someone who has a little more knowledge dealing with phpMyAdmin.

This may help you get back into your website, but if it doesn't, come back and we will help you a little further.

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Re: I may have done a silly thing

  • 2009/3/11 13:54

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Catzwolf - "use_mysession" had a value of 1. Changed it and all is well - back in and we have happy six year olds.

Thanks for your help.
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Catzwolf
Re: I may have done a silly thing

  • 2009/3/11 14:02

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Yeah, we must keep the little terrors...erm...I mean 6 year olds happy :)

How is your loading issues? Has there been any change there?
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Re: I may have done a silly thing

  • 2009/3/11 14:28

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At this stage I'm saying "Problem solved" -until the next one!

Thanks for the help
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