Hi all, I have just set up another Moodle for a group and they want to have four course developers, that's all, no users, just these four people. This is a private Moodle where these people can develop materials, try and break it, and so on, but the thing is, they want session timeouts longer than the current four hours currently permitted. [They also wanted things like 1GB uploads for massive video files and such... but I don't have control of the server upload limits, and the time I went and asked for 512mb uploads was truly frightening.. so that ain't happenin'. ]
I know, I know, and I am not going to try and talk these guys out of it, but their argument being there are only four people, and who cares how long a session goes for. I have just spent the last three hours looking through the admin folder, settings.php settings and so on, even trying a grep but no luck on finding out which php file the essential code that produces this code that appears in the Server/Settings page:
| <div class="form-item clearfix" id="admin-sessiontimeout"> | |
| <div class="form-label"> | |
| <label for = "id_s__sessiontimeout">Timeout<div class="form-warning">Invalid current value: 43200</div></label> | |
| <span class="form-shortname">sessiontimeout</span> | |
| </div> | |
| <div class="form-setting"><div class="form-select defaultsnext"><select id="id_s__sessiontimeout" name="s__sessiontimeout"><option value="14400">4 hours</option><option value="10800">3 hours</option><option value="7200" selected="selected">2 hours</option><option value="5400">1.5 hours</option><option value="3600">60 minutes</option><option value="2700">45 minutes</option><option value="1800">30 minutes</option><option value="900">15 minutes</option><option value="300">5 minutes</option></select></div><div class="form-defaultinfo">Default: 2 hours</div></div> [The drop down list code, is located ????.php] | |
| <div class="form-description"><p>If people logged in to this site are idle for a long time (without loading pages) then they are automatically logged out (their session is ended). This variable specifies how long this time should be.</p> | |
| </div> | |
| </div> | |
I thought it was located in the settings.php but apparently it has been moved, and I did find a reference in Dev Docs to it moving, by Michael de Raadt, but where? According to the Element Inspector Developer Tool in Chrome, it is supposed to be in the settings.php file, but it is either in black text which I can't see in PuTTY, or it's not there. I mistakenly told them that it was an easy fix, but it just ain't so apparently... so mugs on me...
If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated....