Please, I need to increase the wait_timeout value in MySQL from 20 to 1000 because I need it for cer

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(http://mihrab.rf.gd/install)

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( - The MySQL variable wait_timeout is 20, minumum required is 1000, please contact your host provider to update it.e)

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Not possible on free hosting unfortunately

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Is this a hard requirement for your website? Because that requirement seems like nonsense to me.

This setting controls for how long a database connection can be idle before the server closes it. Requiring it to be set to a minimum of 1000 means that your website requires that it should be able to leave database connections open without doing anything for over 15 minutes. That’s a VERY long time.

Having such a high timeout doesn’t really make sense for any PHP-based website. PHP applications need to open a new database connection for every request, which is closed at the end of the request. We also have a PHP max_execution_time of only 60 seconds, so there is no way to keep a MySQL connection open for that long to begin with.

So there is little reason to increase the wait_timeout at all, and definitely not to increase it to such a crazy high value.

This sounds to me like the application developer just set some random limits to some common value and is presenting that as a “requirement” without truly understanding what the settings actually do.

Could you perhaps present this issue to the application developer so they can may revise this requirement?

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### Website URL

(http://mihrab.rf.gd/install/)

The MySQL variable wait_timeout is 20, minumum required is 60, please contact your host provider to update it.

( The MySQL variable wait_timeout is 20, minumum required is 60, please contact your host provider to update it.)

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(other information and details relevant to your question)

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Unfortunaitly on the free account, you can’t get this changed. Since the service is free, you get what you get.

you were advised of this in your other thread:

asking the same thing again but with a diferent value isn’t going to change that I’m affraid

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