How to configure default HTTP Session Timeout on EAP 7

Environment

• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7.x

Issue

• How to configure HTTP Session Timeout on EAP 7.
• How can we configure Default session timeout by admin-console.
• I would like to know where the attribute "default-session-timeout" should be defined by CLI.

Resolution

We can configure a container default session timeout by changing the attribute default-session-timeout (30 minuites by default) through admin-console or JBoss-CLI.

Admin-console

1. login to admin-console,
2. go to "Configuration: Subsystems" -> "Subsystem: Web/HTTP" -> "Undertow Settings: Servlet/JSP"
3. "Default session timeout" will show a current value of the attribute default-session-timeout
4. Click the [Edit] button and specify the value of "Default session timeout". Then click the save button. This change will be effective after the reloading server.

JBoss-CLI

1. Execute the following command in jboss-cli.sh to get a current value of the attribute default-session-timeout:

   /subsystem=undertow/servlet-container=default:read-attribute(name=default-session-timeout)
   

2. Execute the following command in jboss-cli.sh to modify the attribute default-session-timeout as documented in 17.9. Configuring HTTP Session Timeout:

   /subsystem=undertow/servlet-container=default:write-attribute(name=default-session-timeout, value=60)
   

3. The change will be effective after the reloading server:

   :reload
   

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