CakePHP session/auth logging out intermittently
authentication, cakephp, php, session, session-timeout
Solution
I have also had a problem with my security set to high. When you have it set to high it regenerates the session on every request: "CakePHP session IDs are also regenerated between requests if 'Security.level' is set to 'high'."
I had this problem cross-browser as well, so I know its not the best solution but I just changed the security setting to medium, and changed my session timeout to reflect that setting and have not had any problems since.
Problem
I'm having reports and complaints from my user that they will be using a screen and get kicked back to the login screen immediately on their next request. It doesn't happen all the time but randomly. I am using CakePHP and the Auth component, which seem to work well other than this issue I got some feedback on the Cake forums once that this is sometimes caused by a 404 request that resets the session, i.e. if you have a broken image link or a missing favicon file. I have firebug open and there are no failed requests, so I ruled this out as a possibility, but the user is getting sporadically logged out. This seems to occur across browsers and operating systems. Below is a summary of my config settings: Security.level = high Session.timeout = 1200 // this means my actual timeout should be 12,000 seconds Session.save = php I am really at a loss as to what is causing this issue...