Linux – Kill Process Running PHP Script on Linux

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How do I kill the process running php scripts on a linux box? I'm using Debian with php5.

Sometimes during development a php script will continue to interact with a 3rd party webserver even after I've hit stop on the browser that I was testing it in. If I accidentally write an infinite loop, then it can get pretty annoying for the 3rd party. I can stop my local webserver, but the script usually continues where it left off once I restart the local server. What can I do to stop the script until I run it again?

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Setting the max_execution_time in the php.ini may be a better solution than restarting your webserver.

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PHP Script Downloaded Instead of Executed – Troubleshooting

The server does not recognize the script as something to execute locally, and as such it offers it as a file instead.

These lines should be present in your Apache config. Note that the path may need to be changed for the .so modules, depending on your configuration:

# -- if you're using PHP 5, uncomment this line to activate it
#LoadModule php5_module libexec/libphp5.so

# -- if you're using PHP 4, uncomment this line to activate it
#LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

Follow up with a restart of the Apache service and php should load into Apache to run just fine.

Linux – How to automatically kill PHP processes with infinite loops at server level

You can lock it down in Apache with RLimitCPU and RLimitMem.

Or you can renice the whole process at intervals from the OS itself.

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