Giving script timeout passed on database import

Question

I am using wamp server.I am trying to import the database in phpmyadmin. but its showing

Script timeout passed, if you want to finish import, please resubmit same f

Answer 1

Its quite common when importing a database of any size using phpMyAdmin, to blow the max_execution limit that comes with most php installations.

If you want to increase the maximum time allocated to phpMyAdmin rather than to your whole Apache/PHP environment:

In the alias file \wamp\alias\phpmyadmin.conf, just before , you can add

Assuming you have Apache 2.4.x

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
    AllowOverride all
    Require local
    # Increase runtime 
    php_admin_value max_execution_time 360
    php_admin_value max_input_time 360

Or is you have Apache 2.2.x

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
    AllowOverride all
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.1 ::1 localhost
    # Increase runtime 
    php_admin_value max_execution_time 360
    php_admin_value max_input_time 360

Of course you could just use the MySQL Console as the console has no limits placed on it by PHP. This command used at the MySQL Console prompt mysql> will load the database dump file and do the restore.

source c:\path\to\your\database\dump\file.sql

Update

For some time now WAMPServer comes with these parameters set in the \wamp{64}\alias\phpmyadmin.conf file, however, occasionally even with the new defaults you may need to increase them for a very large import