admin timeout while adding FAQs

ardiederich · Post by **ardiederich** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:44 pm

I'm using 1.4.4. I've found that even when I set the login cookie, I can have my session expire while I'm typing in a FAQ. Is there a way to not have the admin's time out? I saw in an earlier post that this may work

faq/inc/config.php. Change $ipcheck = "true"; to $ipcheck = "";

but it doesn't work for me.

Thanks for the help.

Post by **Thorsten** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 8:22 pm

Hi,

did you an update from a version before 1.4.2?

bye
Thorsten

ardiederich · Post by **ardiederich** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 3:01 am

Yes I did. I can't remember which offhand, though. From the files I've left lying around I either started with 1.4.1 or 1.4.2, it looks like.

Post by **Thorsten** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:11 am

Hi,

did you really use update.php?

bye
Thorsten

ardiederich · Post by **ardiederich** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:37 pm

I certainly hope I used update.php.

I believe I made the hand-config change after I got to 1.4.4, though. I haven't tried 1.4.5 yet. Do you know offhand what bugs got fixed for that version?

Post by **Thorsten** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 6:10 pm

Hi,

please run update,php otherwise your database structure won't be updated.

bye
Thorsten

ardiederich · Post by **ardiederich** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 6:44 pm

So if I understand you correctly, when I make a change to inc/config.php I need to re-run update.php?

Post by **Thorsten** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 6:45 pm

Hi,

no, only after an version upgrade. update.php updates the database structure.

bye
Thorsten

ardiederich · Post by **ardiederich** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 6:59 pm

ah. I know I ran update.php for 1.4.4, and I'd be really surprised if I didn't run it for earlier versions, too. Is there a specific table, table structure, or data in a table you're looking for? I'm happy to provide it.

Post by **Thorsten** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:01 pm

Hi,

some tables were changed between 1.4.1 and 1.4.2. Some columns named "user" were renamed to "usr".

bye
Thorsten

ardiederich · Post by **ardiederich** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:18 pm

I have plenty of usr columns, and no user columns. So I don't think that's it. Logging in to the admin part works great, and the cookie gets me passed the first login screen, it's just that my session times out. It's only really annoying when I'm editing a faq and lose the work. My current work-around is to save more often.

Post by **Thorsten** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:50 am

Hi,

do you use cookies for authentication? If yes, try to delete them and try to login again.

bye
Thorsten

ardiederich · Post by **ardiederich** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 11:00 pm

I logged in (using the cookie) deleted all my cookies for the website. It logged me off. I logged in again, it set the cookie. After a while I got logged off again. Oh, I'm using Firefox 1.0 on linux. What browser are you testing with?

Post by **Thorsten** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:08 am

Hi,

I'm testing with Firefox on Windows. This is really strange. Could it possible to turn on the DEBUG MODE in admin/index.php?

bye
Thorsten

ardiederich · Post by **ardiederich** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:25 pm

Not a problem. I turned debugging on, logged in to the admin side, set the cookie, waited a while, hit the startpage againt, then was logged out. Here's the debug:

DEBUG INFORMATION:

DELETE FROM supportfaqadminsessions WHERE time < '1107895932'
SELECT usr, pass FROM supportfaqadminsessions WHERE UIN='3cb9354b869cb948fdb7c223d1358a61'
UPDATE supportfaqadminsessions SET time = '1107897732' WHERE uin = '3cb9354b869cb948fdb7c223d1358a61'
SELECT id, name, realname, email, pass, rights FROM supportfaquser WHERE name = '' AND pass = ''
INSERT INTO supportfaqadminlog (id, time, usr, text, ip) VALUES ('','1107897732','','Session expired
UIN: 3cb9354b869cb948fdb7c223d1358a61
User:
Pass: ******','207.182.164.14')