Hi,
How do I remain logged in? When I visit a new site even for 5 seconds it boots me off and asks me to log in again. Very annoying.
Any clues?
Thnanks,
Matt
Check your browser cookies and security settings.
If admin of a 1.9 Moodle (same path for a 2.x), go to:
Site Admin menu -> Server -> Session handling
There is a Timeout setting + if in multiple Moodles at same time, good idea to set the 'cookie prefix' to something descriptive for the site. Example: http://moodle/area3/ is the location of the Moodle. Cookie prefix is area3.
'spirit of sharing', Ken
Thanks, Ken, however upon checking this, the default is already set to 2 hours. Yet earlier I had a colleague before me who left the Moodle site for another URL, returned 5 seconds later and needed to log in.
What's all that about?
Don't really know ... your browser and version is?
In the Moodle, are you keeping sessions in the DB or in the /moodledata/sessions/ directory?
Hi Ken,
With IE8 and Chrome the same issue. Moodle version is 1.9.13. As for DB/directory, I'm afraid I don't know what that is - we don't really have an admin man anymore and I'm just the teacher who is meant to be driving it forward. I do have admin rights tho.
Thanks,
DB/Directory:
Site Admin -> Server -> Session Handling
At the very top an option to use the database for sessions as opposed to a sessions folder in moodledata. If it's un-checked, your Moodle is using sessions folder in moodledata. From what you've said about admin experience, would recommend leaving it un-checked.
Since it's an issue with multiple browsers, sounds like it might be a network filter if one is on the inside of a private network and the Moodle is remotely hosted (outside private network). If you are inside the private network and this is occuring, then it could be either a browser issue or a network issue.
Have FireFox? Can you install? Try that one!
Also, please see the checklist provided by Chris.
Hard to assist without knowing more specific information: remotely hosted, dedicated, internally hosted, 'flavor' (Linux/Windows/Mac), etc.
'spirit of sharing', Ken
Hi Matt, here is my checklisty
- Did you/user check your browser settings?
- Did you try a different browser, switch from IE to Firefox (for example).
- Did you go onto another network and check it from there?
- What is your Moodle version?
In the last week, I have run across a user who had IE8 and played with the cookies settings and security to clamp things down TIGHT. Also a network where a router was creating issues with the Moodle site and a computer on the other side of that router did not have an issue. And it is always a best practice to look at any web site with at least 2 if not 3 different browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome).
Hope this gives you some more options. Chris