Session keeps timing out

Question

My session keeps timing out in just a few minutes even though I've specified a 200 minute expiry.

In my web.config I've set the timeout for the forms and the sessionState. I've looked at some other similar questions on Stack Overflow but still can't suss this.

<authentication mode="Forms">
  <forms loginUrl="~/Default.aspx" defaultUrl="~/secure/Default.aspx"
    timeout="180"/>      
</authentication>

<sessionState mode="InProc" cookieless="false" timeout="200" />

Answer 1

Maybe your application gets recycled?

This can be caused by changing web.config files, the contents of the bin folder or by deleting (temp) folders in your application. (and probably there exist other reasons as well)

Answer 2

Have you tried to increase the default timeout on the httpRuntime?