I have a wordress blog and there is plugin that does around 20000 SQL inserts on user request. I noticed that the process takes long time, which is normal, but the request times out at 30 seconds. I checked PHP settings and notice that PHP max_execution_time was 30 second, so I increased it to 90, but the requst keeps to timeout at 30 seconds (I even logged what does ini_get('max_execution_time') return and it says "30". Then, I checked if there are any apache directives that limit request time and found that there is a "TimeOut" directive ( http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#timeout ) Its value was 60 and I increased it to 90 as well, but the problem persist - the request times out after 30 seconds as it was before I changed anything.
as a note: I restart the server after I do any modification
