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#42374 continue logged out of Panopticon and login takes multiple times before succeed. Not workable.

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Environment Information

Joomla! version
5.3.4
PHP version
8.3.26
Admin Tools version
7.8.3.

Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 23 October 2025 00:22 CDT

Wednesday, 22 October 2025 13:08 CDT

NicoFaaij

Dear support,

I've been using Panopticon for a long time, and it worked perfectly. But now I have to try logging in with my password multiple times, and even if I succeed, I almost always log out after every mouse click. For example, it is impossible to remove a site as that takes multiple mouse clicks and get me kicked out. Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be? Maybe something with file permissions or something? I really hope you can help me, because it's a great product that saves me a lot of time.

Kind regards and thanks in advance,

Nico

Thursday, 23 October 2025 00:22 CDT

nicholas

Yep, this sounds like a session issue, doesn't it? Open config.php and check the following:

  • $session_timeout should be adequately high. It's in minutes. Try using 60.
  • $session_use_default_path tells Panopticon whether to use PHP's default session save directory.
    • If it's set to true you need to check with your host that the session write path is writeable by your user.
    • If it's set to false, it uses the tmp/session directory under your Panopticon installation. Make sure you do not have anything which would be periodically deleting the contents of that directory.

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