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Changing session expiry

How to change session expiry

  1. Open the 'web.xml' file which is found in the 'config' folder of the Mingle installation directory.

  2. Locate the servlet named 'clean_expired_sessions' which contains the following parameters:

                <servlet-name>clean_expired_sessions</servlet-name>
            ...
              <init-param>
                  <param-name>interval</param-name>
                    <!-- 8 hours, our default session expires -->
                    <param-value>28800</param-value>
              <init-param>
            ...

    The default session expiry is set to 8 hours which is shown in seconds: '28800'. After 8 hours all sessions will be expired and logged in users will be required to login again.

  3. You can change the interval to one that better suits your needs. For example, if you want to set the default session expiry to 4 hours, you can change '28800' to '14400'.