Php – Apache2 PHP5 timeout setting

You do have the right syntax -- it should be in the global server config or a vhost config.

I tested this with 2.2.11 and Timeout closed a connection from another computer and a connection to localhost after 5 seconds. Have you tried from another machine? My config is certainly different, so you may have another setting that keeps localhost connected(?)

I tested with both nc and telnet and there was no difference either.

Which version of Apache are you using? Are you certain there is nothing coming across the wire (via wireshark or similar)?

Depending on your server, you should be looking at Apache, not PHP.

(For RHEL/CentOS) look at /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.ini

#
# PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language which attempts to make it
# easy for developers to write dynamically generated web pages.
#
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
#
# Causes the PHP interpreter to handle files with a .php extension.
#
AddHandler php5-script .php
AddType text/html .php

You'll see that your PHP module is modules/libphp5.so.

AddHandler php5-script .php tells Apache to run PHP on any file with the extension .php.

If you are using an RPM based OS it's probably easier to uninstall (assuming you can do that) the current version of PHP, and reinstall the version you are looking for.

rpm -qa | grep php

will show you what version of PHP is currently installed.