I have an xml importing script that's timing out. I've tried calling the set_time_limit() function inside the script, set to 90 secs, but it looks like it's still defaulting to 30 secs.

So I'm trying to find the php.ini script to configure the max_execution_time and max_input_time settings, but I'm having trouble locating its parent directory.

Any help would be most appreciated!

Sorry I should've also mentioned I'm running Ubuntu 11.04

By running the following command on the command line interface (CLI), you can get the path to php.ini

php -i | grep php.ini

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Great. Found it. Thank you.

To anyone who might come across this thread later:

On Ubuntu, the command above will probably return /etc/php5/cli/php.ini, which is NOT the same file that is used for processing web requests. In fact, setting max_execution_time in cli/php.ini will not have any effect even for command-line scripts.

If you use Apache with mod_php, the relevant file is /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini.
If you use CGI or FastCGI, it's /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini.
If you use FPM, it's /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini.
If you followed some odd tutorial, it could be anywhere.