Set Tomcat session Timeout
To change the tomcat session timeout you need to specify or change the session-timeout parameter it in the web.xml whose path is WEB-INF/web.xml. Most web containers/application server tend to respect this rule too.
<session-config> <session-timeout>30</session-timeout> </session-config>
* The timeout parameter is specified in minutes.
Full web.xml in UTF-8
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5"> <display-name>JCGONZALEZ-BLOG</display-name> <session-config> <session-timeout>30</session-timeout> </session-config> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>home</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> </web-app>
* You must restart tomcat to make this change take effect.