Session expires imediately on logging in

codebuyer · February 23rd, 2005, 10:41 AM

I have developed a site in asp / access and users have to log in to view the site.
The site was running fine until it was shifted to a new server.
Now, whenever I log in, it displays the next page where I am informed that I am not logged in.
Sometimes, I am able to browse the site for sometime and then suddenly the session expires.
The behavious is not consistent, atall.

I have tried changing the time of expire, but it doesnt seem to work.

Any suggestion?

madhukp · February 24th, 2005, 01:11 AM

This seems to be an IIS configuration problem.

Open IIS Manager

Right-click your virtual directory

Open properties

Select home directory tab

Click configuration button down the form

In the new window, select app options.

Check whether enable session state is checked. If not checked, check it. Check also the timeout for this. If it is very less, increase it to 20 minutes.

Save and exit.

Restart IIS.

codebuyer · February 24th, 2005, 02:07 AM

Thanks Madhu.
Will ask my server guy to do this. As this is shared hosting he will be reluctant. Let's see.

Forgot to mention that when the page shows that I am not logged in. I refresh the browser and then it shows that I am logged in.

Does this help? Just hope it does.

madhukp · February 24th, 2005, 02:37 AM

From your last comment, I guess that you are not preventing pages from going into cache. You can use the following piece of code at the top of every page to prevent the page from going into cache. This is very essential for ASP pages.

Code:

Response.AddHeader "pragma", "no-cache"
Response.AddHeader "cache-control", "no-cache, must revalidate"
Response.Expires=-1

Then you need to clear your browser cache and proxy cache.