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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – setting Joomla! preferences


When browsing the Joomla backend, you may have noticed that after a certain amount of idle time, Joomla will ask you to log in again. By default, Joomla kicks you out when you've been logged in for 15 minutes without any activity. When developing a site, it can be quite annoying to have to log in every time you return to your desk with a fresh cup of coffee. Let's change this with the Session Lifetime setting in the Joomla preferences:

  1. From Control Panel, navigate to System | Global Configuration. You can also click on the Global Configuration shortcut in the Configuration menu on the left-hand side of Control Panel. (Remember, you can always jump to Control Panel by clicking on the little Joomla logo in the top left-hand corner of any backend screen.)

  2. Global Configuration is divided into Site settings, System settings, Server settings, Permissions, and Text Filters. Click on the System tab to show the appropriate settings panel, as shown in the...