Deactivate time-limit in php.ini for cgi-php

Question

What does this mean?

deactivate time-limit in php.ini for cgi-php

1. What is time-limit in php.ini?

2. What is cgi-php?

Answer 1

PHP is generally configured with a maximum executin time for any given script... if it exceeds this amount of time to process the script it dies with an error.

There are two primary ways to run php... as a module embedded within the server or as an interpreter utilized by a cgi module like fcgi. You can have different php.ini configuration files for these different methods as well as the CLI interface you can use from a terminal.

So that this is telling you is to disable max_execution_time for the cgi configuration of php.