How to increase the execution timeout in php

Question

How to increase transaction timeout  I want to upload videos  but large size of videos not uploaded   It throws error The process     exceeded the timeout of 60 seconds

User · Answer

if what you need to do is specific only for 1 or 2 pages i suggest to use set_time_limit so it did not affect the whole application.

set_time_limit(some_values);

but ofcourse these 2 values (post_max_size & upload_max_filesize) are subject to investigate.

you either can set it via ini_set function

ini_set('post_max_size','20M');
ini_set('upload_max_filesize','2M');

or directly in php.ini file like response above by Hannes, or even set it iin .htaccess like below

php_value upload_max_filesize 2M
php_value post_max_size 20M

User · Answer

To really increase the time limit i prefer to first get the current value  set time limit is not always increasing the time limit  If the current value  e g  from php ini or formerly set  is higher than the value used in current call of set time limit  it will decrease the time limit  So what s with a small helper like this          param int  seconds Time in seconds     return bool     function increase time limit int  seconds   bool       return set time limit max          ini get  max execution time     seconds               somewhere else in your code increase time limit 180    See also  Get max execution time in PHP script

User · Answer

As an addition to above answers  you may use set time limit   function   http   php net manual en function set-time-limit php  passing 0 as an argument will make your script run with no time limit

User · Answer

If you cannot edit php ini  on your server for example  you can attempt to change the php ini parameters from within your php code  Try   ini set  max execution time    NUMBER OF SECONDS TO ALLOW BEFORE TIMEOUT      If that doesn t work  try also setting  set time limit  in the same way  beyond that I d say your only option is to contact your host  These settings cannot be modified while in safe mode

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To complete the answer of Hannes   You need to change some setting in your php ini   upload max filesize   2M   or whatever size you want  max execution time   60   also  higher if you must   If someone want put in unlimited  I don t know why but if you want   you can set the time to 0   You need to change some setting in your php ini   upload max filesize   0   max execution time   0   And if you don t know where is your php ini  You can do a file  name php  in your server and put    lt  php phpinfo      gt    And on your website  you can see the config of your php ini and it s marked where is it   Edit on 9 January 2015   If you can t access your php ini  you have two more options   You can set this line directly in your  name php  file but I don t find for upload max filesize for this option   set time limit 0     Or in   htaccess   php value upload max filesize 0 php value max execution time 0

User · Answer

I know you are specifically asking about the PHP timeout  but what no  one else seems to have mentioned is that there can also be a timeout on the webserver and it can look very similar to the PHP timeout   So if you have tried    Increasing the timeout in php ini by adding a line  max execution time    number of seconds i e  60 for one minute  Increasing the timeout in your script itself by adding  ini set  max execution time    number of seconds i e  60 for one minute       And you have checked with the phpinfo   function that max execution time has indeed be increased  then you might want to try adding this to  htaccess which will make sure Apache itself does not time out   RewriteRule    -  E noabort 1  RewriteRule    -  E noconntimeout 1    More info here  https   www antropy co uk blog php-script-keeps-timing-out-despite-ini-set

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Test if you are is safe mode - if not - set the time limit  Local Value  to what you want   if  ini get  safe mode          echo  safe mode off       set time limit 180     seconds      phpinfo      see  max execution time       You cannot set time limit this way if safe mode  on

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First check the php ini file path by phpinfo    and then changed PHP INI params   upload max filesize   1000M memory limit   1500M post max size   1500M max execution time   30   restarted Apache  set time limit 0      safe mode is off  ini set  max execution time   500     500 seconds   Note  you can also use command to find php ini in Linux  locate  php ini

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You can also set a max execution time in your  htaccess file   php value max execution time 180

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optional   if you set config about php ini but still can t upload  -this is php function to check error code   error type        error type 0     There is no error    error type 1     The uploaded file exceeds the upload max filesize directive in php ini     error type 2     The uploaded file exceeds the MAX FILE SIZE directive that was specified in the HTML form     error type 3     The uploaded file was only partially uploaded     error type 4     No file was uploaded       error type  5          error type 6     Missing a temporary folder  Introduced in PHP 5 0 3     error type 7     Failed to write file to disk  Introduced in PHP 5 1 0     error type 8     A PHP extension stopped the file upload  PHP does not provide a way to ascertain which extension caused the file upload to stop  examining the list of loaded extensions with phpinfo   may help  Introduced in PHP 5 2 0      ------------------------------   -- gt  show msg error   status code     FILES  uploadfile    error    if  status code    0       echo  error type  status code       exit

User · Answer

You had a typo  ini set  max input time   200M   - value set needs to be an int  like ini set  max input time   200

User · Answer

You should be able to do during runtime too using  set time limit 100    http   php net manual en function set-time-limit php  or in your vhost-config  php admin value max execution time 10000  Having a global execution time limit that is LOW is mostly a good idea for performance-reasons on not-so-reliable applications  So you might want to only allow those scripts to run longer that absolutely have to   p s   Dont forget about post max size and upload max filesize  like the first answer told allready

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If you happen to be using Microsoft IIS server  in addition to the php ini settings mentioned by others  you may need to increase the execution timeout settings for the PHP FastCGI application in the IIS Server Manager   Step 1  Open the IIS Server Manager  usually under Server Manager in the Start Menu  then Tools   Internet Information Services  IIS  Manager    Step 2  Click on the main connection  not specific to any particular domain    Step 3  Under the IIS section  find FastCGI Settings  shown below      Step 4  Therein  right-click the PHP application and select Edit      Step 5  Check the timeouts  shown below      In my case  the default timeouts here were 70 and 90 seconds  the former of which was causing a 500 Internal Server Error on PHP scripts that took longer than 70 seconds

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You need to change some setting in your php ini   upload max filesize   2M   or whatever size you want  max execution time   60   also  higher if you must - sets the maximum time in seconds   Were your PHP ini is located depends on your environment  more information  http   php net manual en ini list php

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