Level 27
How long is "after a period of time"? It might give some idea as to what is wrong.
Apr 24, 2021
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Level 1
Laravel Auth Session logs me out after a period of time
Users in my application are getting logged out after a period of time although i have set the environment variable SESSION_LIFETIME = 525600
There are 100+ concurrent users in the application
The SESSION_DRIVER is set to file, i have read that changing to database and creating the php artisan session:table migration will make it work.
Shall i give it a try? Or is this based on another problem i might be having?
**Edit Locally this does not happen.
Level 1
There is not a standard time that logs me out.
Level 27
I would try setting SESSION_LIFETIME = 1 to see if changes any behavior.
Are you using SESSION_DRIVER = file locally?
Level 1
Locally using SESSION_LIFETIME = 1 logs me out after 1 minute, i have changed to database now, but i was using file.
Level 27
I have never used FILE before, but I suspect it is something else in your production and not DATABASE vs FILE. No harm trying though.
Level 1
I'm using the standard Login Auth Route so i don't think the login function is the problem, also it's a single page application so it's also not a middleware problem which i might have not seen. It is weird that this happens in production but not locally. I read that using FILE in production is wrong, i will give DATABASE a try.
Level 27
Yea, file is not necessarily race safe, although I have not examined that part of Laravel's code before.
Level 1
So changing the SESSION_DRIVER = database and using php artisan session:table fixed the issue and now everything works as expected.
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