How to expire Django session in 5minutes?

There are two parameters to expire sessions, SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE and SESSION_COOKIE_AGE.If you want to expire in 5 minutes yours settings should like as:

SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE = FalseSESSION_COOKIE_AGE = 5 * 60 #

To combine both learn how do it writing your custom middleware "Is there a way to combine behavior of SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE and SESSION_COOKIE_AGE"

Update for Django 1.6

The middleware code below is not working in Django 1.6 and above version because of json serializable. To make it work in all versions of Django, put the session serializer.

settings.py

#Handle session is not Json SerializableSESSION_SERIALIZER = 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer'

The above sample of serializer is for Django 1.6. Kindly search for other version. Thanks...

Create middleware.py

from datetime import datetime, timedeltafrom django.conf import settingsfrom django.contrib import authclass AutoLogout:  def process_request(self, request):    if not request.user.is_authenticated() :      #Can't log out if not logged in      return    try:      if datetime.now() - request.session['last_touch'] > timedelta( 0, settings.AUTO_LOGOUT_DELAY * 60, 0):        auth.logout(request)        del request.session['last_touch']        return    except KeyError:      pass    request.session['last_touch'] = datetime.now()

Update your settings.py:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [    .........................    'app_name.middleware.AutoLogout', ]# Auto logout delay in minutesAUTO_LOGOUT_DELAY = 5 #equivalent to 5 minutes

Django 1.9

Edit your settings.py and add the following:

# SESSION AGE 5 MinutesSESSION_COOKIE_AGE = 5*60