PHP script times out earlier than max_execution_time

Question

I am testing a page generated by a script that performs some operations and redirects to another script. It times out at ~ 60 seconds although the max_execution_time is set to 300.

Other revelant settings could be:

mysql.connect_timeout   60
default_socket_timeout  60

Would these be causing this behavior?

Answer 1

In PHP did you use the function

• PHP manual set_time_limit()

Answer 2

Is it possibly hitting the memory_limit set in php.ini? Run top while the script is running and see if its memory consumption increases to near the set limit before timing out.

I would highly doubt that the current settings for mysql.connect_timeout and default_socket_timeout would be causing any problems.

Also, just to make sure, you did restart apache after making the php.ini changes, correct?

Answer 3

It's also possible that your PHP could be overriding it. For example, I once had set "php_value max_execution_time 600" in my Apache VirtualHost configuration on the Directory of my Drupal 5 install, but Drupal 5 core has a line in the includes folder that says max_execution_time 240. Because the Drupal code came later it overrode the Apache configuration.

The solution for me to "force" my declaration was to set it in Apache as "php_admin_value max_execution_time 600". The php_admin_value means that PHP scripts cannot change the value you set it to.

Answer 4

This could have been re-configured in a .htaccess file somewhere within the site (or superior folders).