Title: Maximum Execution Time Error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Maximum Execution Time Error

 *  [GnorthernGnome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnortherngnome/)
 * (@gnortherngnome)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maximum-execution-time-error-1/)
 * Hi, been struggling with this for a few days. I’m trying to get a cloned development
   site up and running for a WP blog we’ve used at work for a while now. To do so,
   I’ve installed WAMP (running fine) and gone through the WP install. However, 
   when I get to the final page (when it links to Dashboard) it hangs and eventually
   gives a PHP Maximum Execution Time Error.
    The same occurs when I try to access
   the Plug-ins page, Tools page and a handful of others. Accessing most Dashboard
   links is fine and takes a few seconds, as does adding comments/logging in on 
   the index page.
 * Normally I would associate this with a process timeout, however I’ve edited php.
   ini multiple times. Setting max_execution_time to anything less than 600 results
   in the error, anything over and it permanently hangs.
    I’ve increased the input_load,
   the memory allocation and even tried setting mex_execution_time to infinite, 
   all to either receive the error message or get it hanging (loading indefinitely
   and then just stopping without any change).
 * I’ve tried editing the wp-config.php file and the files mentioned in the error
   message, no help.
 * I’m running the latest version of WAMP, with PHP 5.4, MySQL 5.6 and Apache 2.4.
   I’ve tried other, non-WP sites and they seem to work, though phpMyAdmin does 
   occasionally hang it eventually sorts itself out. I’m accessing via the recommended
   port and using localhost. WAMP is being run as Administrator and is allowed access
   through Win Firewall (McAfee is installed, though I can’t work out if it’s running
   a Firewall and shows no correlation with attempts to access the pages and logged
   events).
 * My PC is running Windows 7 32-Bit, an i5 2400 CPU @ 3GHz, 4GB RAM and a decent
   graphics card (not that it should make any difference!). There is over 300GB 
   of unused HDD space on the drive WAMP and WP are installed.
 * I’m almost totally out of ideas at this point so any help is greatly appreciated.
   There is the possibility, as I’m doing this at work, that some Windows setting
   or browser setting is causing the issues though I can’t think what (I do have
   Admin control so can play with anything) and I don’t see why a local server would
   have any issues operating within the network I’m on.

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 * Last reply from: [GnorthernGnome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnortherngnome/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maximum-execution-time-error-1/)
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