How to increased timeout duration of session

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Hello,

I write a following code in web.config file to increased a timeout of session

XML

<sessionstate mode="InProc" timeout="120"/>

but it is not work most of time.
After uploading website on server it is not at all work.
I search of internet but it seen that it is a problem generally occurred with session mode="InProc" please help.

What I have tried:

I write a following code in web.config file to increased a timeout of session

XML

<sessionstate mode="InProc" timeout="120"/>

Posted 27-Jun-16 3:40am

Kishor-KW

Updated 27-Jun-16 8:36am

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 27-Jun-16 9:48am

How do you know it is not working? You have waited there for two hours and more to check?

Kishor-KW 27-Jun-16 9:54am

yes i did BTW session is out after 15 mint. instead i gave time of 2 hour

TheKarateKid 27-Jun-16 10:14am

is there any way that you have session setting in IIS which is less than 120 ?

[no name] 27-Jun-16 10:43am

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1205828/how-to-set-session-timeout-in-web-config

ZurdoDev 27-Jun-16 11:32am

Some things that may be affecting it. Your idle timeout on the app pool in IIS may be causing it. If you have code that is changing web.config your sessions will get reset. If you are putting new code in place you'll also lose your sessions.

Richard Deeming 27-Jun-16 14:31pm

That looks like the answer to me. :)

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ZurdoDev · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-27T08:36:00

Solution 1

As mentioned in the comments, there are several things that can cause sessions to get lost. Your idle timeout on the app pool in IIS may be causing it. If you have code that is changing web.config your sessions will get reset. If you are putting new code in place you'll also lose your sessions.

You'll need to troubleshoot why your session is getting reset. I'd also like to hear why you think the session is being reset.

Posted 27-Jun-16 8:36am

ZurdoDev

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Kishor-KW 30-Jun-16 7:14am

but what is role of IIS after hosting web-site on other server. IIS is a Local server am I right?

ZurdoDev 30-Jun-16 8:16am

What role? I'm not sure what you are asking.

Kishor-KW 30-Jun-16 9:24am

i mean there is no iis server at hosted server. IIS server is one on which we run our website developed in Visual studio. Is IIS server like wamp server ?

ZurdoDev 30-Jun-16 10:13am

If your hoster does not have IIS, how are they hosting your site? You need IIS to host ASP.Net sites.

Kishor-KW 30-Jun-16 13:17pm

okk.Thank you for sort out my confusion. So I have to contact to my hoster to changes settiong of IIS to increase time of session

ZurdoDev 30-Jun-16 13:20pm

It depends. I still want to know what makes you think the session has ended.

IIS has an idle timeout setting. I think it defaults to 15 minutes or so. It means that if no one accesses the site for that amount of time, the application shuts down. So, if you are testing with just one user this may be the issue.

Kishor-KW 30-Jun-16 13:45pm

I get know how session is out because of I maintain some session variables for passing variable from one page to other. and when session variable is null then i navigate page to login page. thats how i get know session is out. and yes it is probably happen after 15 min as you said it is time for iis. I thought asp.net default session time is 20 min.

ZurdoDev 30-Jun-16 14:10pm

Session time is 20 minutes. Idle time is a different setting in IIS.

Kishor-KW 30-Jun-16 14:49pm

ok. so now i have to contact with hoster to increase session?

ZurdoDev 30-Jun-16 15:02pm

Yes, increase idle time.