How to fix "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded" [duplicate]

Question

I am trying to install woocommerce plugin to my wordpress website I get the following error message:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\apps\wordpress\htdocs\wp-admin\includes\class-wp-filesystem-direct.php on line 81.

I also installed WP Maximum Execution Time Exceeded plugin too but I am still not able to install plugin. Please help me out with this.

Answer 1

This question has been asked before. Here is a link to an existing Stack Overflow question that should help you:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/34813078/2316753

You need to update your PHP.ini file to tell Apache to allow PHP scripts to run longer than 30 seconds.