phpMyAdmin No activity within 1440 seconds; please log in again Fix

Friday, 5th July 2013

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I had some complains from Web Developers who constantly was working on a Testing Web Development server. That their opened PhpMyadmin in browser is often closing opened session (auto logging out) with an error:
 

No activity within 1440 seconds; please log in again

This message was driving crazy people, as often they code something in PHP and design a new table or something and refreshing in browser blocked their work flow process with this annoying error …

Thanksfully there is an easy fix to that, just raise the time limit via /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

First its necessary to enable cookies authentication (by default it is commented):

Line:

//$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';

should be:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';

PHPMyAdmin 1140 seconds (24 minutes) timeout behavior behavior is controlled through variable: cfg['LoginCookieValidity']
Also it is necessary to increase timeout from server php.ini  (in Debian and Ubuntu via /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini or in CentOS / RHEL / Fedora Linux by editting /etc/php.ini and changing 1h session expiry setting:

session.gc_maxlifetime = 3600

to

(60*60*8  = 28800 – 8 hrs)

session.gc_maxlifetime = 28800

By default cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] is omitted from config.inc.php so you have to insert it at end of file.

A reasonable timeout value is 8 hours. To change PhPMyadmin Login TimeOut to 8 hours:

$cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] = 60 * 60 * 8; // in seconds (8 hours)

If you want to make Timeout Expire almost never (and you don't care about security) set it to some extra high timeout like 1 year  🙂

$cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] = 3600 * 24 * 365; // 1 year
 

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