CGI Timeout

Some useful info for anyone stumped by the 300 second default CGI Timeout
setting in IIS when trying to run a PHP process that is longer...

The 'master' Process Options Tab (Web Sites -> Properties -> Home
Directory -> Configuration) in IIS allows you to set the CGI Timeout value.
By default, it is 300 seconds. Many times, changing the value has no effect
on a CGI's timeout value such as PHP. If you set your application's
protection level to high/isolated (then click apply), a Process Options tab
will appear for the application. Changing these settings WILL have an
effect on the CGI timeout value. Unfortunately, when you set the protection
level back to medium or low, or remove the application completely, the CGI
timeout that was set for the application is still used.

Hope this helps.



HTTP/1.1 502 Gateway Error Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.1 Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004
15:16:54 GMT Connection: close Content-Length: 186 Content-Type: text/html
CGI Timeout
The specified CGI application exceeded the allowed time for processing. The
server has deleted the process.