How do you increase session timeout on discountasp?

Hi

Our site has a login admin section for various users. I want to increase the session timeout length from 20 minutes to 60 minutes so that the users have more time to do their work.

However when I add <sessionState timeout='60' /> to our web.config file I get the following error:



'Configuration Error
Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS.'



Is there a way of increasing session timeout on discountasp.net? Can I configure IIS to do this? I am a new user and don't really want to mess around with IIS until I know, or at least think I know, what I'm doing

On a similar note I also notice that sessions timeout much, much earlier than 20 minutes - this happens on the odd occasion. Is this just a server 'blip' - perhaps caused by another user on the same server?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

Kevin

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Thanks Bruce. When I go to the 'Web Application Tool' and look at my root folder there is no 'Install Application' button. This button only appears on my sub-folders. Do I have to make my sub-folder an application? I actually only need the longer session timeout of 60 minutes in one particular admin sub-folder - and not on the main end user site. Do I make this admin folder an application and add a web.config file here with a longer session timeout?

Presumably I can Uninstall Application if I make a mistake? - as I said this is a new area for me

 

Your root is always a web application, it's the parent web application that is inherited by all subfolders.



Joel Thoms
DiscountASP.NET
http://www.DiscountASP.NET