[rt-users] Default auto-refresh interval

Kevin Falcone falcone at bestpractical.com
Wed Feb 9 09:23:23 EST 2011


On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 01:37:17PM +0000, Michael Brown wrote:
> I had a customer request to set the default home page refresh interval to 2 
> minutes for all users.  I found several suggestions that essentially involved 
> modifying the code (e.g. by creating a local version of Elements/Login or 
> Elements/Refresh), but wanted to avoid code customisations if at all possible.
> 
> I found that I could make this work using mod_rewrite, without having to touch 
> the RT code:
> 
>   RewriteEngine On
>   RewriteRule ^/$ /?HomeRefreshInterval=120 [L,PT,QSA]
> 
> (note that this is with RT in the root directory of a virtual host; modify the 
> "^/$" portion as necessary for other locations).
> 
> Posting this message for the record, to save someone else the time it took me 
> to figure this out.

I'm not sure How this is better than using the documented config variable
$HomePageRefreshInterval which is also available on a per-user basis.

-kevin
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