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"htpasswd timing out"

This is strange.

I have a .htpasswd protecting the admin area of my site(s) but it is timing out.

I thought the auth was valid until you cleared your cache.

Any ideas?

Neil

Ahhh - it's not the admin session that is timing out, it's my htpasswd file that is expiring. Totally different.

(But thanks for looking)

N.

Well I'm out of ideas as things are working fine for me :¬)

I'm not familiar with Joomla so don't know if there's any help for your here: joomla admin session timeout

Hopefully someone else will be able to help more.
[s]Hmmm...[/s]

I'm using htpasswd to protect the administrator directory tree of my joomla installation, so basically nothing can be edited in there without basic auth.

I've never known this to happen before.

Could be those parameters you mention. No idea.

N.

I stay logged in for most of the day using IE, I've just tried FF and this seems fine as well.

I'm only using htpasswd to protect simple html pages, is your 'admin system' more sophisticated?

i.e. If you are using PHP then running phpinfo() shows there are session timeout parameters in place.
If you are using the admin system from a CMS then this might be making use of this or have further controls in place perhaps?

[s]Hmmm...[/s]

Definitely times out. Even in the new Firefox 3.6, about every 5/10 minutes.

Very odd.

N.

Working ok for me!

I think it's 'session' based rather than cache related...

EDIT: I'm using Freeola Standard hosting.








[s]Hmmm...[/s]

This is strange.

I have a .htpasswd protecting the admin area of my site(s) but it is timing out.

I thought the auth was valid until you cleared your cache.

Any ideas?

Neil