CGI Timeout when running script on local server (IIS)

[devised]

I'm running a php script locally on an IIS server (Win XP) but keep getting this error even though I've increased the max execution times and memory to run scripts on php.ini:

HTTP/1.1 502 Gateway Error Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.1 Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:15:28 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.

Any suggestions?

[devised]

Are there any CGI settings that can be changed in IIS?

[awasson]

No I think it's all handled in the ini file.

What are you trying to do with your script that requires a long timeout?

[devised]

spidering websites

[awasson]

Ok... That would take a while. I've done that in PERL but never had a problem with timing out.

I did a mailer in PHP that would time out under huge loads of email addresses so I cycled it and mailed out batches of 25 emails at a time. Each time I refreshed the page with a progress report.

Maybe you could do something similar with your spider script. Have it return a certain number of URL's it has spidered, keep track of where it is in its job, then go back and do another set of URL's.

I'm afraid I can't think of anything else to help out.

Andrew

[devised]

Maybe you could do something similar with your spider script. Have it return a certain number of URL's it has spidered, keep track of where it is in its job, then go back and do another set of URL's.

If I can't find a better way, then that should work for me. Thanks

[awasson]

No worries and good luck with it.

Andrew

[devised]

I still keep getting the cgi timeout. Is there anyone here that can help with this?

[devised]

Anyone?

[wwb_99]

Can you run the script from the command line? I had a mail script that could take upwards of 12 hours to run. No fun from web, worked real good from a dos prompt.

Another option is to continually flush output to the browser, thereby not seeming like a timeout.

[devised]

I thought about creating a .bat file and setting that to run, but it's currently setup to display info in the browser after it runs.

I'll try flushing the output.

Thanks

[devised]

Ok, so what's the best way to continually flush output to the browser? I tried using flush() inside the loop, but it's not working...

Anyone have experience with this?

[awasson]

Ok, so what's the best way to continually flush output to the browser? I tried using flush() inside the loop, but it's not working...

Anyone have experience with this?

Hmmm that would be nice but I've always had to devise my own method.

I usually start looping until I reach a predetermined number that I know can be achieved before time-out. I then set a variable to keep my place in the job, output the percentage of work done to the screen and continue on with the job.

[wwb_99]

One thing to watch out for regarding flush: IE requires enough characters (256) in order to accept the output. So add a little pad with spaces function and you will be good to go.