Even though I have set-up a 4 hours sessiontimeout period in Moodle settings, my users were thrown out of their sessinos in 24 minutes.
I searched the moodle.org web-page and found a soulution on this page: Using Moodle: CRON job and sessions relation.
In short: the problem was that PHP setting (php.ini) session.gc_maxlifetime was set-up to 1440 seconds (24 minutes). I changed this to 3600 seconds (1 hour) and now it works.
Yes, I’m a web developer and unfortunately I need IE for my work. I never used it and I have no intention to use it as my browser since it is far far from Firefox, but there are too many people using it to just ignore them and create web page that doesn’t look good in IE.
When people will become smart and start to use Firefox or other browsers I will not need it anymore. But since this utopian day is still far away I will say THANKS to Sérgio Lopes for creating IEs4Linux. (more…)