Timeout

[ajap]

When users editing a site, if some time pass, connection to sitebuilder wizard closes, they loose the last entered data. Is there a way to extend timeout or disable timeout?

 

[Alex Klimov]

Hello,

You cannot disable timeout in the current version, however you can increase timeour period.
1. Go to the [%SB_DIR%]\Web\Web.config file.
2. Find 'roleManager' tag, change it's 'cookieTimeout' value (in minutes).
3. Find 'sessionState' tag, change it's 'timeout' to the same value.
4. Find 'forms' tag, change it's 'timeout' to the same value.
It should help.

Warranty: this changes aren't supported officially, you can do it on your own risk. And please don't do it immediately on the production server, test it first on independent installation.

 

[m.r.davies]

ajap, please let us know if you discover any issues with increasing the timeout

Thanks

 

[ajap]

I applied them, plus I extended the timeout in IIS. Now, authentication connection is not closing, but connection to page which was last edited closes again and unsaved data goes. User should begin editing from the beginning, saved data while changing between pages remains saved.

 

[Alex Klimov]

Do you use Sitebuilder for Windows 4.0 or any previous version? What step in Wizard lose state before timeout expired?