Permalinks changed - site now not showing

[ChilliFactor]

Hi there,

We've set up a new site with Venture.

I made an error changing permalink structure on wp settings - which has caused the website not to show now, and the permalinks settings not to show on the wp dashboard.

I've gone through some steps to resolve and found that there wasn't an .htaccess.php on the server, so I've uploaded on with this info,.


# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

The error message I am getting when I go to the website is -

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in ... /htdocs/wp-includes/rewrite.php on line 829

How can I resolve this quickly? i can't change back to old permalinks structure as I can't access Permalinks settings in dashboard....

Thanks heaps for any assistance
KC