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setting session time out for the web interface

Configuring Session Expiry for the Web Interface


Overview: This article explains what a web session timeout is and provides the steps to set session timeout in the Ezeelogin Web Interface.



This error commonly occurs when the server loses cookies or sessions due to being proxied through Cloudflare or WAF.

What is Web session timeout?

A web session timeout occurs when a user remains inactive or does not perform any actions for a  predefined period, resulting in the automatic termination of their session.

How to set  session timeout

Step 1: Login to the Ezeelogin backend, edit the Ezeelogin configuration file located at /usr/local/etc/ezlogin/ez.conf and add the timeout value, setting the variable in seconds.

root@gateway:~# nano /usr/local/etc/ezlogin/ez.conf   

cookie_expiration 3600           // (3600 seconds = 60 min)

The config file for Ezeelogin Version 5  would be /usr/local/etc/ezeelogin.conf


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