Joomla! 3 installation freezes at creating database table

Question

I am trying to install Joomla! 3.2.1 on my system but the installation freezes half way through. I\'ve downloaded and installed the Wamp Server 2.4 and wanted to locally ins

Answer 1

The problem is that PHP has timed out. By default WAMP comes with the php variable max_execution_time = 30

Look at your php error log and it should make this error fairly obvious.

So edit your php.ini file, using the wampmanager menu system

wampmanager -> PHP -> php.ini

Find the parameter

max_execution_time = 30

And change it to

max_execution_time = 200

Then restart Apache, so it see's these changes.

Once the install has completed go back and change it back to a value no more than 60.