By elvisparsley on

I just installed drupal5.2 in WAMP. However when I try to get http://localhost/drupal/install.php I get the error message "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\wamp\www\drupal\includes\file.inc on line 644".

I use windows XP and the latest WAMP.

Could any one help a newbie please?

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kvaes commented

Find the file "php.ini" within your WAMP, and change the execution time there to a value higher then 30s

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anivad commented

Sorry this didn't work, any other suggestions??

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einsteinsboi commented

I found with Drupal 5 I had no problem, but Drupal 6 gave me a bit of a headache with this error.

First thing I did was change max_execution_time to at least 1000. I changed some other settings too, just don't remember them offhand, but this was the most important.

This allowed the install to proceed. But the admin options were really slow, so I switched from using Firefox to using Google Chrome for the admin tasks and now my speed is much faster.

Give that a try!

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billyverde commented

I'm having the same problem installing Drupal 6, and I'm still getting the 30-second timeout even after setting the max_execution_time to a much higher value. Even after stopping and restarting Wamp, it still times out after 30 seconds and there is no other php.ini file anywhere on my system. Very frustrating. Any other suggestions?

Update: after heeding einsteinsboi's suggestion to use Google Chrome, my installation went off without a hitch. I'd been using Firefox previously. Still, I'm baffled as to why it would continue reverting to 30 seconds even after I'd upped the max_execution_time to a value in the thousands. Google 1, Mozilla 0. ;-)

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gr33nman commented

I thought it might be easier to dev on my home laptop, but it's slower than my server across the country, at least when the load average is reasonable. I'm attempting to load just the date modules, including calendar, etc. Timeout.

I'm running it on winxp, 1MB RAM, from Drive F though - not C. I have 18 out of 93 available GB of space available on C for memory paging with windows set to decide. I'm out of ideas.

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php-dude commented

My initial assumption is that something is wrong with the setup as Drupal will not take that long to load on a normal machine. Does your other php files on local work fine? Did you try and get any Drupal module installed along with this?

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wtrager commented

I had the same problem, built 6 multi-sites without a hitch went to build 7th and ran into this issue. There are two php.ini files. One in the apache app and one in the php app. changes them both to 60 and restarted all services. still didn't work. Changed both to 600 and restarted all services and now it works fine.

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mjlF95 commented

I followed your advice. I only edited the php.ini file in the php directory (I didn't find one in the apache directory), to 600 and it installed fine. Thanks for the help!

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addicted_to_drupal commented

I had the same problem, i went on the net and after a lot pages i found this one

the soluce

And it works. You have to go one location of drupal/sites/default folder then found the file defaulf.setting and add new line on it

ini_set('max_execution_time', 0);

You can also use others one like
ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime', 2000000);
it's as you wish

I hope it help's you