PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\vendor\symfony\process\Pipes\WindowsPipes.php on line 140

Question

When I try to upload video that is larger than 15MB using Ajax and Laravel I get this error:

PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\vendor\symfony\process\Pipes\WindowsPipes.php on line 140

I use Ffmpeg and Symfony/process

the error in symfony windowsPipes.php in Laravel.

What is problem?

Answer 1

You can set max_execution_time in your php.ini:

max_execution_time=300

Or, in your PHP code:

ini_set('max_execution_time', 300); // 5 minutes

Setting it to zero removes the restriction, however apache might also time out in that scenario.

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

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.

The maximum execution time is not affected by system calls, stream operations etc. Please see the set_time_limit() function for more details.

You can not change this setting with ini_set() when running in safe mode. The only workaround is to turn off safe mode or by changing the time limit in the php.ini.

Your web server can have other timeout configurations that may also interrupt PHP execution. Apache has a Timeout directive and IIS has a CGI timeout function. Both default to 300 seconds. See your web server documentation for specific details.