Question

I have searched through the google and also joomla forums but didn’t got what exactly I was looking for.

• My main purpose is to set the joomla session live for ever.
• Many forums says its not good to keep a higher value (security issues) but I don’t want to consider that right now.

My question is:

What if I set the session lifetime value to “0” (Zero), will the session be active for ever? or the user will NOT be able to login completely?

Answer 1

I don’t know Joomla’s session management functions in detail, but I assume they are based on ordinary cookies. With those, a value of 0 will lead to the cookie being deleted at the end of the session, so you may want to go with an impossibly large value.