I still get this error.
My max_execution_time is set to 360 (as you can see here
www.thekimblefamily.com/phpinfo.php ). The page gets the error LONG before reaching 6min.
Some of the articles available on this page cause the error (500)...
www.thekimblefamily.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=2&Itemid=4
The problem seems likely to be with the generation of thumbnails. If the page has a lot of pictures, especially large ones, and hasn't been loaded in a while, you will get the error. After a couple reloads, the page will load, which I suspect is because it managed so thumbnail/cache a few more images during each refresh before failing. Once it has cached/thumbnailed all the pictures, the page will load successfully repeatedly. But come back tomorrow and it will 500-error again.
I too have hosting with 1&1. But as you can see in my PHP info, my settings seem overly generous. I have a .htaccess and php.ini helping to adjust them.
I need some help trying to figure out what is causing this error.
PHP.ini
[PHP]
register_globals = Off
memory_limit = 64M
; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept.
post_max_size = 64M
; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 32M
max_execution_time = 360 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
max_input_time = 120 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
.htaccess
#
# Apache/PHP settings:
#
# Force PHP v5
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
# Override PHP settings. The following cannot be changed at runtime.
# PHP 4, Apache 1.
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
php_value memory_limit 64M
php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
php_value register_globals 0
php_value session.auto_start 0
php_value mbstring.http_input pass
php_value mbstring.http_output pass
php_value mbstring.encoding_translation 0
php_value post_max_size 64M
php_value upload_max_filesize 32M
php_value max_execution_time 360
php_value max_input_time 120
</IfModule>
# PHP 4, Apache 2.
<IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
php_value memory_limit 64M
php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
php_value register_globals 0
php_value session.auto_start 0
php_value mbstring.http_input pass
php_value mbstring.http_output pass
php_value mbstring.encoding_translation 0
php_value post_max_size 64M
php_value upload_max_filesize 32M
php_value max_execution_time 360
php_value max_input_time 120
</IfModule>
# PHP 5, Apache 1 and 2.
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_value memory_limit 64M
php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
php_value register_globals 0
php_value session.auto_start 0
php_value mbstring.http_input pass
php_value mbstring.http_output pass
php_value mbstring.encoding_translation 0
php_value post_max_size 64M
php_value upload_max_filesize 32M
php_value max_execution_time 360
php_value max_input_time 120
</IfModule>
