Session Timeouts

[GaryDean]

I have developed an asp.net 2.0 app on my instance of server2003 and have
set IIS to timout in 40 minutes (asp.net|configuration) and it works just
fine - the app won't timeout until 40 minutes of inactivity passes.

However when deployed to a production server2003 machine with the very same
IIS settings, the app times out in 20 minutes. I have no specific timeout
statement either in code or web.config.

Any ideas?

 

[Masudur]

I have developed an asp.net 2.0 app on my instance of server2003 and have
set IIS to timout in 40 minutes (asp.net|configuration) and it works just
fine - the app won't timeout until 40 minutes of inactivity passes.

However when deployed to a production server2003 machine with the very same
IIS settings, the app times out in 20 minutes. I have no specific timeout
statement either in code or web.config.

Any ideas?

Hi Gary...

20 min is a default timeout period...
please add timeout configuration in web.config and set it to 40 min...
if this problem still remains please check your machine.config
file....

Thanks
Masudur

 

[GaryDean]

I guess I failed to say that I have tried all of the obvious solutions, some
of which, you suggest.

 

[Guest]

I guess I failed to say that I have tried all of the obvious solutions, some
of which, you suggest.

So, did you tried to set timeout in the web.config file?

<sessionState mode="InProc"
cookieless="true"
timeout="40"/>

 

[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Hi Gary,

This issue does look strange, if you're pretty sure that the obvious
web.config settings and IIS settings are correctly configured:

1) web.config, see Alexey's suggestion.

2) IIS: virtual directory properties -> (Directory) Configuration ->
(Options) "Session timeout".


Maybe we're lack of some context or background information, would you
please depict more on the other configuration settings your web site
having? Thanks.


Regards,
Walter Wang ([email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[GaryDean]

Walter,
Is there some reason cookieless="true" has to be coupled with the timeout
setting?

BTW, are there any downsides to cookieless sessions other than having the
sessionID in the url?

 

[GaryDean]

also, this is a little strange...
if iis is set to 20 and my web.config says timeout="40" at 22 minutes of no
activity the user does not get the login screen, the session variables are
just null.

 

[GaryDean]

I have new information and I am going to start a new thread on this