Configure Session Management Plugin for Joomla

The miniOrange Joomla Session management plugin allows you to control the session lifetime for all Joomla users and provides a seamless user experience. With our plugin, you can extend session lifetimes, limit parallel logins, and effortlessly manage user sessions. Keep track of active sessions and empower users with frontend login management. In this guide, we will go through the steps to configure the Session Management plugin for your Joomla site.

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Pre-requisites : Download And Installation

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Steps To Configure Session Management On Your Joomla Site

1. Install Joomla Session Management Plugin

• Login into your Joomla site’s administrator console.
• From left toggle menu, click on System, then under Install section click on Extension.

• Upload the downloaded zip file to install the Joomla Session Management plugin.

• Installation of the plugin is successful.

2. Configure Joomla Session Management Plugin

• First go to the Account Setup tab. Here enter your account miniOrange account credentials followed by license key to activate the plugin. Now we can start configuring Joomla Session Management plugin.

• Go to the Configuration tab in the plugin and click on General settings.. Here we will configure the following features:

• Remember Device: Admin users have the option to enable device recognition, allowing them to bypass the need for entering login credentials each time they access the admin area.

• Terminate User Sessions on Group Modification: Activate this feature to automatically end all active user sessions when a user group is modified or removed.

• Automatic Session Expiration: Activate this feature to automatically end user sessions after a designated period of inactivity.

• Logout all Active Sessions: Activate this feature to provide users with the option to log out from all active sessions simultaneously.

• Now in the Configuration menu, go to the Role-Based tab. Here we can configure the following features:

• Limit active sessions: Activate this feature to configure the number of active sessions that can be active for a single user.

• Disable Automatic Session Timeout for Specific User Groups: When you enable this feature for a specific user group, it ensures that sessions for all users within that group will not be automatically terminated.

• Now go to the Device-Based tab to configure the following features:

• Preventing Duplicate Sessions for Active Users: Enabling this feature prevents active users from experiencing session duplication.

• Terminate Previous User Sessions on New Device Login: This feature enables the termination of the previous user session when a user logs in from a new device.

• Now go to the IP-Based tab to configure the following features:

• IP Based Active Sessions: Activate this option to restrict the number of active sessions from a specific IP address for an individual user.

• IP Based Session Blocking: Activate this option to manually block a range of IP addresses. You can block any range of IP addresses.

• Now go to the Session Analytics tab from the side-menu. Here, you can access a comprehensive report detailing all user sessions.

Note:

• 1. Device-based: If Active Session limit for users is set greater than 1 the you cannot enable features for Preventing Duplicate Sessions for Active Users and Terminate Previous User Sessions
• 2. Role-based: Disable the device-based settings for Preventing Duplicate Sessions for Active Users and Terminate Previous User Sessions if you want to increase the maximum number of active sessions.

You have successfully configured Session Management Plugin for Joomla.

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