Archive for August, 2009

• Extending the timeout for Rails processes through Passenger on Nginx - August 5th, 2009

  I recently had to allow for a long running reporting task in a Rails app which is running under Passenger (mod_rails) on Nginx
  The default setting is 60 seconds and setting send_timeout to 300 in the Nginx config wasn’t working.
  After much searching, I found the answer. Edit
  /ext/nginx/Conguration.c and change the lines:
  ngx_conf_merge_msec_value(conf->upstream.send_timeout, prev->upstream.send_timeout, 60000);
  ngx_conf_merge_msec_value(conf->upstream.read_timeout, prev->upstream.read_timeout, 60000);
  to (for [...]