FastCGI Handler

Re: FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout

akatherder — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:11:14 GMT

If you are increasing the value in fcgiext.ini, you have to specify it in the bottom section below the [PHP] header. If you just uncomment it in the top part, it will not work.

Just my experience from trial and error. You may need to Recycle the Application Pool for the settings to be applied.

Re: FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout

captaingeek@gmail.com — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:55:25 GMT

hex, what os / version of iis are you running? what ver of php? need more details.

works good on iis7 w/ admin pak and setting php timeout in iis admin.

Re: FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout

Deguir — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:14:44 GMT

I'm having problems with PHP on Windows when using WHMCS panel, almost everything that I use returns timeout error.
I am using Windows 2003, PHP with FastCGI and has set a longer time even more so return error.

What could be?

Re: FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout

heximal — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:51:32 GMT

Hi. I have the same problem and still find no solution. I tried all advices I found, but nothing helped. What's wrong? Please, somebody, help!)) I feel I'm going crazy.

Re: FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout

IISi — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:34:11 GMT

AceNZ:
c:\windows\system32\inetsrv is where IIS lives, and is where FastCGI was originally installed.
Yes, I moved the files from there to c:\php, and configured IIS to load the DLL from there instead of the default.

Thanks for your quick answer. Couple of questions to make me sure what I am really doing;

1) Do I have to move ALL the files from inetsrv to c:\php? Is there difference between copying or moving them - so, can I just copy them?

2) You mean that dll is fcgiext.dll and the FastCGI path is after configuration c:\php\fcgiext.dll

Re: FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout

AceNZ — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:36:13 GMT

IISi:
I have similar issue on my server. I think that your solution could work for me too. Can you explain what you mean with removing files from inetsrv? Did you moved them into c:\php? Sorry, I am newbie with world of IIS =o).

c:\windows\system32\inetsrv is where IIS lives, and is where FastCGI was originally installed.

Yes, I moved the files from there to c:\php, and configured IIS to load the DLL from there instead of the default.

Re: FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout

IISi — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:25:54 GMT

AceNZ:

EDIT: problem solved. Although the DLL and the INI were located in the inetsrv directory, IIS had been configured to load the DLL from c:\php, due to a permission problem of some kind. The files weren't removed from inetsrv, so when the config file there was changed, it had no effect, since it was getting loaded from the same folder as the DLL. Once the files in inetsrv were removed and the INI in c:\php updated, everything seems to be working fine.

I have similar issue on my server. I think that your solution could work for me too. Can you explain what you mean with removing files from inetsrv? Did you moved them into c:\php? Sorry, I am newbie with world of IIS =o).

Re: FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout

gutch — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:37:22 GMT

I had similar problems with timeouts on PHP, but I am using IIS 7.0 which doesn't have a fcgiext.ini. It turns out that the FastCGI configuration is now in main IIS XML configuration, modifying fcgiext.ini would make no difference.

Here is how to set the configuration with IIS 7.0:

%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.webServer/fastCgi /[fullPath='C:\php\php-cgi.exe'].activityTimeout:600

You need to change the 'C:\php\php-cgi.exe' to the actual location PHP that you registered with IIS.

If you want to make double-check that the configuration worked properly, you can check it like this:

%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd list config -section:system.webServer/fastCgi

You should see output similar to the following:

<system.webServer>
<fastCgi>
    <application fullPath="C:\php\php-cgi.exe" activityTimeout="600">
      <environmentVariables>
      </environmentVariables>
    </application>
</fastCgi>
</system.webServer>

Re: FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout

AceNZ — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:14:13 GMT

I messed up the fcgiext.ini file and restarted the app pool. No errors were displayed in IE when I went to a PHP page.

However, I'm running 32-bit Win 2K3, not x64. In addition, I'm already running the "Intermediate Release" on the page that you mentioned, which I believe is the latest release.

EDIT: problem solved. Although the DLL and the INI were located in the inetsrv directory, IIS had been configured to load the DLL from c:\php, due to a permission problem of some kind. The files weren't removed from inetsrv, so when the config file there was changed, it had no effect, since it was getting loaded from the same folder as the DLL. Once the files in inetsrv were removed and the INI in c:\php updated, everything seems to be working fine.

Thanks for the lead -- it helped me start looking in the right direction!

Re: FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout

rickjames — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:19:43 GMT

Hi AceNZ,

I wonder if the correct config is getting used.. If you deliberately mess up your system32\inetsrv\fcgiext.ini config file do you see an error?

If not and you're using x64, there's an issue where the wrong .ini file is sometimes read. Could you try the latest (http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=1000057) and see if that solves the problem?

Thanks,

Rick.

Re: FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout

AceNZ — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:35:28 GMT

Sorry I wasn't more clear.

As with the original poster, FastCGI times out after 30 seconds with an Activity Timeout error, regardless of how high I set the ActivityTimeout parameter.

Re: FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout

rickjames — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:34:18 GMT

Hi AceNZ,

ActivityTimeout controls home long FastCGI will wait for PHP before giving up. Is the PHP script taking longer than 900 seconds to run?

Thanks,

Rick.

Re: FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout

AceNZ — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:47:41 GMT

I've run into a similar problem. I set ActivityTimeout=900 in fcgiext.ini, then restarted IIS, and I'm still getting the activity timeout:

Error Number: 258 (0x80070102).

I'm running the 32-bit "intermediate release": 7.0.6001.16606 (LH_SRV_IIS(wadeh).070322-1011)

I'm using PHP 5.2.4-nts. I've double-checked the timeout settings in php.ini, and they look fine. Here's my current fcgiext.ini:

[Types]
php=PHP

[PHP]
ExePath=C:\PHP\php-cgi.exe
InstanceMaxRequests=10000
EnvironmentVars=PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS:10000
RequestTimeout=500
ActivityTimeout=900

Any suggestions on how to fix this would be appreciated.

Re: FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout

hreldelmyer — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:04:02 GMT

How does one configure the activity timeout when using Perl? Is there also a php.ini file when doing FastCGI with Perl?

Re: FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout

rickjames — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:11:41 GMT

Hi jchertudi,

I made the following change to php.ini:

max_execution_time = 90

Then the following changes to fcgiext.ini:

RequestTimeout=90
ActivityTimeout=60

Then recycled the AppPool in question (currently config change notifications are not supported)

and then requested a page that calls sleep( 59 )

Everything worked as expected.

Cheerz,

Rick.