How to increase the session lifetime in Symfony2?

Question

I have a login with a remember checkbox. I\'m tring to set lifetime of session to 1 year if the remember checkbox is checked, but no matter what I tried, it doesn\'t work... Sym

Answer 1

It should be done in security.yml configuration file:

secured_area:
    pattern:  ^/yourpattern
    remember_me:
        key:      "%secret%"
        lifetime: 31536000 # 365 days in seconds
        path:     /yourpath
        domain:   .yourdomain.com

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