Session times out constantly on RC1

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carlc999 Posted: Sat, Apr 14 2007 10:46 AM

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I have a new RC1 install. I log in and start looking around. Almost every time I click on something, I get redirected to the sign in page. I type in my creds and then I can do some things for anywhere from 10 seconds to 2 minutes before I lose my session. Its pretty much unusable.

I've looked at a bunch of other posts that mention the web.config but all of the forms authentication timeout settings look fine.. Mine are 60000 by default.

Any ideas???????

Thanks

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Ben Tiedt replied on Sat, Apr 14 2007 1:20 PM

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Have you looked at: http://communityserver.org/forums/t/486615.aspx

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Tommyweather replied on Sat, Apr 14 2007 2:12 PM

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I too have the same issues from time to time.  Any help would be appreciated.  I know previously with 2.1 it was a machine key issue that was easily solvable however when I look in the web.config I do not see it and was lead to believe it no longer exists?  What else could be causing this? 

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carlc999 replied on Mon, Apr 16 2007 11:30 AM

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Thanks, I finally fixed it. There are a lot of threads on this so its a little confusing. I saw a number of different formats for the machinekey setting and I had to dig around to find out exactly where to put it in the web.config. So for anyone else running into this:

 1. Open your web.config with a text editor. Go here http://www.aspnetresources.com/tools/keycreator.aspx and generate a random machinekey. Copy the text to the clipboard.

2. Locate the section called <system.web> int he web.config file

3. Paste the machinekey code below <system.web> in the web.config file.

 For example:

<system.web>

<machineKey
            validationKey="E66450779A9E6B2925E94E8DB6070781E924FFBAD488756D5F9469284403C19A6CBA6519CA60DA89EE5F77719E30D5F98390F398BE9E79419FD6CD9440749FF2"
            decryptionKey="2DE02F3FEB78F043A5CF021D18F897CF13B8D2DE4E95A40A" validation="SHA1" />

<protocols>

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Natescape replied on Thu, Dec 6 2007 7:25 PM

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Thanks, carlc. There are multiple instances of the system.web in the web.config file. Should the machine key be added to each?