newbie question: timeout

[Dave Bartlett]

We have a site which requires a user to login. Often users want to login,
then do nothing on our site for a few hours, then use it again, eg. have the
browser minimised.
When they try to use the site after a period of inactivity, they see a
fairly ugly error message from the server.

How do I:
1) Change the timeout to say 5 hours
2) Prevent the user seeing the error page, and instead redirect them to the
login page?

Thanks

 

[Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]]

Hi Dave,

You can set the timeout for the session in the web.config

<configuration>
<system.web>
<sessionState mode="Inproc"
cookieless="false"
timeout="300"/>
</sessionState>
</system.web>
</configuration>

For the login, try this...

<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms name=".MYLOGIN" loginUrl="login.aspx" protection="All" path="/"
timeout="300" />
</authentication>

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...en-us/cpgenref/html/gngrfsystemwebelement.asp