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Asked: 2026-06-17T04:11:53+00:00

For some time I have been getting a Maximum execution time of 30 seconds

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For some time I have been getting a “Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded” while trying to update different WP installations on my local server.

I know I can fix this by disabling it in the php.ini.. but what I want to do is find the problem and fix it generally. It’s a local server after all, so this action should take just few seconds of time.

My local server is running on XAMPP.

The exact message from the WP admin:

Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.5-new-bundled.zip…

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in E:\Local Server\htdocs\test wp\wp-includes\class-http.php on line 949

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  1. Editorial Team

    to temporarily increase your max execution time you can use ini_set() in your php page

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

    otherwise you’ll need to do it in php.ini

    max_execution_time = 30

    Change the value (in seconds) or set to 0 for infinite time and restart Apache for the setting to take effect.

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