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Published Sep. 10, 2025

Liferay hard session timeout

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Pooja Bhambani

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Issue

  • Is there any configuration available in Liferay OOTB (out-of-the-box) for forcing logout users after 4 hours?

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.2
  • Liferay DXP 7.3
  • Liferay DXP 7.4
  • Quarterly Release

Resolution

  • A session is considered active as long as a user is interacting with the server (this could be clicking on a link, navigating to a different page, or submitting a form). A timeout is based on inactivity between the user and the server. The property session.timeout defines the timeout duration for a user's session before logging them out and this value is set in minutes.
  • There is no such feature available out-of-the-box to logout the user if their session is still active; however, user can extend the session timeout value, but it'll only work if the user is inactive

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