Data Base Update Timeout

  • After updating to the new version we are unable to access the dashboard as wordpress says a “Database Update Required”. On clicking the update nothings happens for a while and then a timeout screen appears. How to fix this?

    We have thousands of posts and i think this could be the reason. Will rolling back to the previous version of wordpress resolve the issue?

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  • I had the same problem (with too many posts on my site) and apparently the database update timed out because of php execution timeout limits.

    The thing is that i have a dedicated server, and I can edit the php settings. If you have shared hosting this may be a problem.

    Here’s the fix:

    Through cpanel/php configuration editor or in php.ini change these lines:

    max_execution_time from 30 to 150 or more
    max_input_time from 60 to 300 or more

    Go to your site and press the button to update the database again

    This fixed it for me.

    Thread Starter dileepp89

    (@dileepp89)

    My developer says the execution time is in the max. Is there any other way of resolving?

    What is the value of “max”? You cannot set these values to unlimited as far as I know.

    Anyway, the other thin I can think of is to flush any opcode cache running (eaccelerator, APC, or xCache) on your server or a server restart.

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