Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds

Question

I keep getting this PHP error:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded

I have tried setting my max_execution_time and my max_input_time settings in php.ini (both apache and cli) to 0, -1 and 4000 seconds each.

And i still get the error saying:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded

As well my script runs over 300 seconds before i get this message

I am running the script through command line.

I also checked my phpinfo() so see which php.ini I am using.

Even more interesting I have tried setting max_execution_time and max_input_time settings to 5 second and my script will run way beyond 5 seconds before I get the:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded

Answer 1

PHP's CLI's default execution time is infinite.

This sets the maximum time in seconds a script is allowed to run before it is terminated by the parser. This helps prevent poorly written scripts from tying up the server. The default setting is 30. When running PHP from the command line the default setting is 0.

http://gr.php.net/manual/en/info.configuration.php#ini.max-execution-time

Check if you're running PHP in safe mode, because it ignores all time exec settings when on that.

Answer 2

go to the xampp/phpmyadmin/libraries/config.default.php

and make the following changes

from  $cfg['ExecTimeLimit'] = ’300′;
to  $cfg['ExecTimeLimit'] = ’0′;

Answer 3

For Xampp Users

1. Go to C:\xampp\phpMyAdmin\libraries
2. Open config.default.php
3. Search for $cfg['ExecTimeLimit'] = 300;
4. Change to the Value 300 to 0 or set a larger value
5. Save the file and restart the server
6. OR Set the ini_set('MAX_EXECUTION_TIME', '-1'); at the beginning of your script you can add.

Answer 4

You can set time limit:

ini_set('max_execution_time', 1000000000000000);

Answer 5

Try something like the following in your script:

set_time_limit(1200);

Answer 6

Xampp Users

1. Go to xampp\phpMyAdmin\
2. Open config.inc.php
3. Search for $cfg['ExecTimeLimit'] = 300;
4. Change to 0 for unlimited or set a larger value
5. If not found add $cfg['ExecTimeLimit'] = 0; (or a larger value)
6. Save the file and restart the server