Cookie Authentication expiring too soon in ASP.NET Core

Question

I have a ASP.NET Core 1.1.2 project in which I am using cookie authentication. I am having a problem where users are being prompted to log back in after being idle for an h

Answer 1

Do you have services.AddIdentity set up in your ConfigureServices method?

            services.AddIdentity(config =>
        {               
            //  Require a confirmed email in order to log in
            config.SignIn.RequireConfirmedEmail = true;
            // Cookie settings
            config.Cookies.ApplicationCookie.ExpireTimeSpan = TimeSpan.FromHours(10);
            config.Cookies.ApplicationCookie.LoginPath = "/Account/LogIn";
            config.Cookies.ApplicationCookie.LogoutPath = "/Account/LogOut";
        }).AddEntityFrameworkStores().AddDefaultTokenProviders();

I had a similar issue and resolved it here ASP.NET MVC Core Identity & Cookies