How to increase apache timeout directive in .htaccess?

Question

How do I increase the apache timeout directive in .htaccess? I have a LONG $_POST['script'] that takes a user probably 10 minutes to fill in all the data. The problem is if it takes too long than the page times out or something and it goes to a webpage is not found error page. Would increasing the apache timeout directive in .htaccess be the answer I'm looking for. I guess it's set to 300 seconds by default, but I don't know how to increase that or if that's even what I should do... Either way, how do I increase the default time? Thank you.

Answer 1

if you have long processing server side code, I don't think it does fall into 404 as you said ("it goes to a webpage is not found error page")

Browser should report request timeout error.

You may do 2 things:

Based on CGI/Server side engine increase timeout there

PHP : http://www.php.net/manual/en/info.configuration.php#ini.max-execution-time - default is 30 seconds

In php.ini:

max_execution_time 60 

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Increase apache timeout - default is 300 (in version 2.4 it is 60).

In your httpd.conf (in server config or vhost config)

TimeOut 600 

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Note that first setting allows your PHP script to run longer, it will not interferre with network timeout.

Second setting modify maximum amount of time the server will wait for certain events before failing a request

Sorry, I'm not sure if you are using PHP as server side processing, but if you provide more info I will be more accurate.