When you visit a website managed by Joomla 3, a session is started. This session is called Session Lifetime and refers on how long an idle session is left open. The default value is 15 minutes, but you can change this value following the easy next steps.

1. Log into your Joomla 3 Administrator Control Panel.
2. In the left menu, click Global Configuration:
3. In the right side, select System tab:
4. In the bottom of the page, you´ll see the Session Settings header you’ll find the Session Lifetime setting. We can change the set value, remembering that this value you set it´s in minutes. Once you do it you click the Save button in the top left of the page:

This concludes Change the Session Lifetime in Joomla 3.

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