[Typo3] changing timeout

[Sean Ellis]

Christian Trabold wrote:

Ahoy,

>> I use tabbed browsing to work with my typo3-installations. Now and 
>> then I forget to use a certain tab for a while until a popup reminds 
>> me of a timedout login. Now I am logged in as I am working in other tabs.
>>
>> My Question: How can I change this timeout-value to say 120 Minutes? 
>> Or turn it completely off?
> 
> 
> http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/doc_core_api/A_few_examples_of_ex/ 

Or perhaps this is the timeout setting that you're asking about,

$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['sessionTimeout'] = 3600;

visible via Configuration->$TYPO3_CONF_VARS->[BE]->[sessionTimeout]

modify to suit and place in typo3conf/localconf.php

Cheers,

Sean