504 Gateway Time-out media temple

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 10:56:58AM -0400, samueleast wrote:

> hi maxim thanks for the reply
> 
> i cant find out where these files and variables are on my hosting to edit i
> have checked all files in my nginx folder and i cant see those options in
> there anywhere.
> 
> will there just be a file with 
> 
> proxy_pass 
> fastcgi_pass 
> proxy_read_timeout 
> fastcgi_read_timeout.
> 
> i tried editing the nginx.conf file to
> 
> http {
>     include       mime.types;
>     default_type  application/octet-stream;
> 
>     #log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request"
> '
>     #                  '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
>     #                  '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
> 
>     #access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;
> 
>     sendfile        on;
>     #tcp_nopush     on;
>     #keepalive_timeout  0;
>     keepalive_timeout  120;
>     #tcp_nodelay        on;
> 
>     #gzip  on;
>     #gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";
> 
>     server_tokens off;
> 
>     server {
>      location / {
>       fastcgi_read_timeout 900s; # 15 minutes
>      }
>     }
>     include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
> }
> 
> am i doing this correctly?

The "include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;" in your config suggests 
servers are configured somewhere in /etc/nginx/conf.d/.

The way you added fastcgi_read_timeout won't work as it affects 
only the server{} block you've added.  You may try adding 
fastcgi_read_timeout and/or proxy_read_timeout at http level 
instead, i.e.

http {
    ...

    fastcgi_read_timeout 900s;
    proxy_read_timeout 900s;

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}

This will work as long as they aren't redefined in your server 
configs in /etc/nginx/conf.d/.

-- 
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.com/support.html