Timetracker keeps logging me out -SOLVED

[raisinTweezers]

Firstly, to any timetracker devs here: thanks for a great piece of software. I'm new to this forum.

I managed to install timetracker v. 1.19.14.5180 on a virtual server. (Your Linux quick install howto is obviously good!)

I have an issue that despite a lot of Googling I cannot seem to fix. Timetracker keeps logging me out. Things I have tried:

In WEB-INF/config.php, I set this:
define('PHPSESSID_TTL', 259200);

This only made it worse and it was logging me out in under an hour. (Sometimes it seemed like every time I went to the browser tab I had to enter my password again.) I read this forum post:
viewtopic.php?t=1830

So I created a directory /../../../tt-tmp and set its permissions to 0755 (I also tried higher permissions). Then I uncommented the line in config.php and set it to:
define('PHP_SESSION_PATH', '/../../../tt-tmp');

That made things even worse and timetracker would not let me log in at all.

Please can anyone shed some light on this?

[wrc]

So I created a directory /../../../tt-tmp and set its permissions to 0755 (I also tried higher permissions). Then I uncommented the line in config.php and set it to:
define('PHP_SESSION_PATH', '/../../../tt-tmp');

That made things even worse and timetracker would not let me log in at all.

Please can anyone shed some light on this?

Looks like you are on the right path here using PHP_SESSION_PATH, but apparently the specified directory is not accessible / usable, therefore you can't login. Make it accessible to PHP, then it will work properly. I would try using absolute path instead.

[raisinTweezers]

Thanks wrc. I tried creating a directory under the public_html directory and referencing that in PHP_SESSION_PATH using both absolute and relative paths, but neither worked. So I commented both the PHP_SESSION_PATH and PHPSESSID_TTL lines to revert to the default. Timetracker is now logging me out it seems every hour. That's odd as I think I read that the default is 24 hours. So I searched to find other instances of PHPSESSID_TTL, and found this in line 84 of initialize.php:

$phpsessid_ttl = defined('PHPSESSID_TTL') ? PHPSESSID_TTL : 60*60*24;

To me that looks like 24 hours, or am I wrong? What would happen if I edited that line to, say, 60*60*192? Or is there anything else I can try?

Thanks again for your help.

[peter]

... Timetracker is now logging me out it seems every hour. That's odd as I think I read that the default is 24 hours.

It' is not Time Tracker that logs you out. You run other applications in there that expire your sessions from a commonly shared directory. To resolve the problem, you need to keep the sessions separate.

$phpsessid_ttl = defined('PHPSESSID_TTL') ? PHPSESSID_TTL : 60*60*24;

To me that looks like 24 hours, or am I wrong? What would happen if I edited that line to, say, 60*60*192? Or is there anything else I can try?

See above, nothing will help until you rersolve the underlying prtoblem of other apps interfering. You need to keep TT sessions in a separate directory for every instance of TT that you may run there,

Add this to initialize.php:

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echo session_save_path();
echo('<br>');
echo(__FILE__);

after:

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// Set PHP session path, if defined to avoid garbage collection interference from other scripts.
if (defined('PHP_SESSION_PATH')) {
  ini_set('session.save_path', PHP_SESSION_PATH);
  ini_set('session.gc_probability', 1);
}

So that the code fragment looks like:

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$phpsessid_ttl = defined('PHPSESSID_TTL') ? PHPSESSID_TTL : 60*60*24;
// Set lifetime for garbage collection.
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', $phpsessid_ttl);
// Set PHP session path, if defined to avoid garbage collection interference from other scripts.
if (defined('PHP_SESSION_PATH')) {
  ini_set('session.save_path', PHP_SESSION_PATH);
  ini_set('session.gc_probability', 1);
}
echo session_save_path();
echo('<br>');
echo(__FILE__);

The above will print current session path and initialize.php file path on pages, which may help you to find a real path to use for TT sessions.

Or buy a support incident for quicker resolution.

[raisinTweezers]

Sorry for the delay in replying. Thank you both for your help. Peter, your instructions worked perfectly! Thanks again