I have an MVC 2 application where the timeout is set to 2880 (minutes as I understand it, but even if it is seconds there's a problem):
<authentication mode="Forms"> <forms loginUrl="~/Account/LogOn" timeout="2880" /> </authentication>
Now this should then mean 48 hours, or at least 48 minutes (if the value is seconds). But the user is logged out after as little as a couple of minutes of inactivity...
Why is that? Any help appreciated!
Found the answer finally after a lot of Googling...
You have to set a custom machinekey in the web.config file. I used this generator:
http://aspnetresources.com/tools/machineKey
This seems to have to do something with "recycling" on the web host, which causes the user to be logged off, if I understood it correctly.
Anyway, it works fine now!
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