Title: WordPress (database) update timeout
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress (database) update timeout

 *  [neilp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neilp/)
 * (@neilp)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-update-timeout/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m upgrading to WordPress 3.3 (from 2.7) and for reasons not worth explaining,
   I’ve got my php files on one host, and mysql on a remote host.
 * Unsurprisingly the database upgrade process times out.
 * Is there any way to force it to try for longer or do the upgrade manually through
   mysql?
 * If not, is there a way to do a backup/export so I can move the site to somewhere
   else?
 * Cheers!

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 *  [David Choi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpthemes777/)
 * (@wpthemes777)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-update-timeout/#post-2954455)
 * WordPress does have that feature. Go to:
 * Admin Panel > Tools > Import/Export
 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-update-timeout/#post-2954457)
 * Normally it is advised to back up before you upgrade and you should not upgrade
   more then 2 version at time so in your case you should have upgrade to 2.9 3.1
   and then 3.3 you will instructions here
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended)
 *  [Max](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clementsm/)
 * (@clementsm)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-update-timeout/#post-2954469)
 * It is probably a php on your host, most of them use FCGI/FastCGI to run PHP as
   a CGI program, and that has a wrapper that defines how long a process can live.
 * I would suggest you contact them about the timeout and see if they will increase
   your limit, a reputable host will not have an issue with that.
 * Just a heads up, if you are running WordPress 2.7 and you upgrade that to WordPress
   3.3 you may have issues if your host is running php4. Check that too while you
   are on the phone with them.
 * @GovePatel is also right, don’t bit off such large bites when doing an upgrade…
   🙂

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-update-timeout/#post-2954469)
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