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I'm trying to install Serendipity on a Windows machine at work. I'm running Apache 1.3.28 and PHP 4.3.10 on Windows 2000. I get the following error after entering configuration information on the initialization screen.

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in d:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\serendipity\serendipity_functions_installer.inc.php on line 632

In this section of code, the server attempts to connect to itself after setting up a .htaccess file. Line 632 corresponds to the fgets() that reads the response (the line number may have changed due to some print statements I inserted in an effort to figure out what's going wrong).

Does anyone know what's causing this? It shouldn't be taking 30 seconds to generate the response.

Is Apache maybe running on a nonstandard port? Or is maybe the socket module of PHP not active, or maybe it has to do with allow_url_fopen? Do you have entries in your servers error_log file about the timeout?

Can you try to simulate the request that s9y is doing and see what is happening?

Regards,
Garvin

Apache is running on port 80. Originally, php_sockets.dll wasn't loaded. I changed php.ini to include it and it made no difference. Safe mode is off. disable_functions is blank. There are no errors in the Apache error log. I enabled a PHP error log and the only message I get there is identical to the one above. I captured the request header and sent it through a telnet to port 80 and it worked fine but it hangs if I do it right after submitting the configuration form.

Could it be that Apache is only handling one request at a time? Does PHP create a lock or single thread application requests?

dont forget allow_url_fopen parameter in php.ini