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Hi Hugo,

This is now (my first) real support request:

I am installing webmail interfaces on my servers; like roundcube (php-based, http://roundcube.net) and one particular issue I have is for scripts that run longer, someone kills them after 5 seconds and I get a "500 Internal Server Error" page.

Here are the relevant parts of all involved config files:

httpd.conf:
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TimeForCGI = 60

FastCGIserver {
FastCGIid = PHP5webmail
ConnectTo = 127.0.0.1:2006
Extension = php, php5
SessionTimeout = 30
}
VirtualHost {
Hostname = webmail.itlabs.bg
WebsiteRoot = /path/to/vhosts/sub.doman.tld/htdocs
StartFile = index.php
AccessLogfile = /path/to/vhosts/sub.doman.tld/logs/access.log
ErrorLogfile = /path/to/vhosts/sub.doman.tld/logs/error.log
ExecuteCGI = yes
FastCGI = PHP5webmail
}
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php-fcgi.conf:
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Server = /usr/bin/php5-cgi; 127.0.0.1:2006; www-data:www-data; /path/to/vhosts/sub.doman.tld/conf/php.ini
----cut here-------------------------------------

/path/to/vhosts/sub.doman.tld/conf/php.ini:
----cut here-------------------------------------
max_execution_time = 180
max_input_time = 60
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I guess "TimeForCGI" does not affect FastCGI jobs, but anyway, I get this on the Hiawatha error log for that subdomain:

/path/to/vhosts/sub.doman.tld/logs/error.log:
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Wed 01 Oct 2008 22:04:53 +0300|10.48.52.201|/path/to/vhosts/sub.doman.tld/htdocs/atmail/util.php|CGI timeout
----cut here-------------------------------------

I did try to fix this for quite a while and I cannot. I've searched the man page, but still no luck.

So that's pretty much all that I can report back.
Any help will be highly appreciated!

Thanks,
Yassen

Please, read this:

http://projects.leisink.org/forum/106

I've read that thread, thanks, but probably I still miss something. Trying to reflect what you say there, here are the new relevant settings in my httpd.conf:

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Binding {
TimeForRequest = 60
MaxRequestSize = 16
}

TimeForCGI = 60
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Doesn't seem to help, though -- the application behaves the same way. (Yes, server restarted couple of times, as well as the php-fcgi daemons, no change.)

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated!

Thanks,
Yassen

TimeForCGI is a virtual host setting, not a global setting. Move it inside the VirtualHost block to make it work. Please let me know if that solves your problem.

Problem solved!!

Hugo, thank you very much.

BTW, the default config that was installed out of the debian package has that directive hanging out in the global context, commented. I just uncommented it and changed the value. I guess it's legal for it to be there (probably defining the way the default host behavior). But it seems like a good idea to put a commented entry into the virtual-host sample as well ....

You're right. Thanks for the tip. I've moved it into the example VirtualHost block.