phpmyadmin logs out after 1440 secs

Question

In my local development Ubuntu box I use MySQL and phpmyadmin to work with the database.

Whenever phpmyadmin is idle for 1440 secs (24min) the session expires. I lose m

Answer 1

You will then get another warning: “Your PHP parameter session.gc_maxlifetime is lower that cookie validity configured in phpMyAdmin, because of this, your login will expire sooner than configured in phpMyAdmin.“. That makes sense because php’s session will time out first anyways. So we will need to change /etc/php.ini .

session.gc_maxlifetime = 43200
That’s 12 hours in seconds. 

Restart your apache server and you are done!

source: http://birdchan.com/home/2011/06/06/phpmyadmin-timeout-after-1440-seconds/

this works for me! :)