phpmyadmin logs out after 1440 secs

Question

In my local development Ubuntu box I use MySQL and phpmyadmin to work with the database.

Whenever phpmyadmin is idle for 1440 secs (24min) the session expires. I lose m

Answer 1

You should restart apache or httpd, not mysqld

sudo service httpd restart

or

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Answer 2

If the parameter $cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] is not taking effect in config.inc.php file, try disabling the session.gc_maxlifetime in the php.ini file by putting a semicolon to the left like this:

; After this number of seconds, stored data will be seen as 'garbage' and
; cleaned up by the garbage collection process.
; http://php.net/session.gc-maxlifetime
; session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440

Or try disabling both $cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] and session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 by commenting both out.

Then phpMyAdmin should no longer log out when you idle. It works for me on Windows. Don't forget to clear your browser cache and restart your webserver.

Answer 3

If you have phpmyadmin configuration storage setup, the settings will be pulled out of your phpmyadmin.pma__userconfig table, and will override anything you have in config.inc.php. In this table, each MYSQL user can be assigned a different set of phpmyadmin settings.

Answer 4

To set permanently cookie you need to follow some steps

Goto->/etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php file

add this code

$cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] = <cookie expiration time in seconds > 

Answer 5

steps to change cookie expiration

step 1:Go to settings of Phpmyadmin

step 2:General

step 3:Login cookie validity

step 4:Update 1440 seconds default cookie expiration time with your new value

Answer 6

You can change the cookie time session feature at phpmyadmin web interface

Settings->Features->General->Login cookie validity

OR

If you want to change the 'login cookie validity' in configuration file, then open the phpmMyAdmin configuration file, config.inc.php in the root directory of PHPMyAdmin.(root directory is usually /etc/phpmyadmin/)

After locating the config.inc.php , search for the line below and set it to the value of seconds you want phpmyadmin to timeout:

$cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] 

or

Add the following:

$cfg[ ' Servers'] [$i] [ ' LoginCookieValidity' ] = <your_new_timeout>;

For example:

$cfg[ ' Servers'] [$i] [ ' LoginCookieValidity' ] = <3600 * 3 >;

The Timeout is set to 3 Hours from the Example above.

session.gc_maxlifetime might limit session validity and if the session is lost, the login cookie is also invalidated. So, we may need to set the session.gc_maxlifetime in php.ini configuration file(file location is /etc/php5 /apache2/php.ini in ubuntu).

session.gc_maxlifetime = 3600 * 3

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phpMyAdmin Documentation on LoginCookieValidity

$cfg['LoginCookieValidity']

Type: integer [number of seconds]
Default value: 1440

Define how long a login cookie is valid. Please note that php configuration option session.gc_maxlifetime might limit session validity and if the session is lost, the login cookie is also invalidated. So it is a good idea to set session.gc_maxlifetime at least to the same value of $cfg['LoginCookieValidity'].

NOTE:

1. If your server crashed and cannot load your phpmyadmin page, check your apache log at /var/log/apache2/error.log. If you got PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in /path/to/phpmyadmin/libraries/Header.class.php on line 135, then do a chmod 644 config.inc.php. that should take care of the error.
2. You will then get another warning: Your PHP parameter session.gc_maxlifetime is lower that cookie validity configured in phpMyAdmin, because of this, your login will expire sooner than configured in phpMyAdmin.. then change the session.gc_maxlifetime as mentioned above.