Manual:$wgCookieExpiration
| <translate> Cookies</translate>: $wgCookieExpiration | |
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Number of seconds before HTTP cookies expire. You can override this for 'Keep me logged in' cookies with $wgExtendedLoginCookieExpiration |
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| <translate> Introduced in version:</translate> | pre 1.1.0 |
| <translate> Removed in version:</translate> | <translate> still in use</translate> |
| <translate> Allowed values:</translate> | (integer) |
| <translate> Default value:</translate> | 1.18–: 30 * 86400 1.19–1.28: 180 * 86400 (r94430) 1.29+: 30 * 86400 (Gerrit change 321592) |
| <translate> Other settings:</translate> <translate> Alphabetical</translate> | <translate> By function</translate> | |
Details
The default value is 30 days (30 * 86400 seconds).
This means most MediaWiki cookies will last 30 days.
This includes login/session cookies when the "Keep me logged in" option is not set. When "Keep me logged in" is set, $wgExtendedLoginCookieExpiration is used instead (although by default that settings falls back to $wgCookieExpiration).
When "Keep me logged in" is not set, login expiry is also limited by $wgObjectCacheSessionExpiry (the session expires when there is no interaction for that time span).
| <translate> MediaWiki version:</translate> |
Since MediaWiki 1.22 setting this configuration variable to 0 makes cookies session-only. This was previously documented as working, but broken.
This is used by WebResponse::setcookie and mw.cookie.set, though an individual cookie can have a custom expiration.
