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Milos Cuculovic
Asked: 2013-01-04 07:37:37 +0800 CST

How to increase the timeout for a web application

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I have a web application which is processing some data on server side. I am requesting this process with a post request.

The problem is that if I have a big amount of data, I will get a timeout. I am usig a ngnix server with PHP.

The error I am getting is 404 Not Found.

Do you know how is it possible to increase the timeout?

Thank you.

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  1. Best Answer

    PHP

    To increase PHP execution timeout, increase in php.ini. To see where your php.ini is located, see phpinfo().

    max_execution_time = 60 #this is in seconds

    nginx

    To increase nginx's timeout on reading from backend, increase in nginx config (nginx/nginx.conf).

    proxy_read_timeout 60

    More: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpProxyModule#proxy_read_timeout

    cURL

    This is an assumption, but since you say you are making a POST request, increase cURL timeout

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT ,0); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 400); //timeout in seconds

    More: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

    Misc

    Be sure to set timeouts with precedence in mind. PHP will keep processing even if nginx decided to stop listening. etc.

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