How to increase nginx timeout for upstream uWSGI server? - nginx

Question

Stack used:
Nginx -> Uwsgi (proxy passed) -> Django
I have an API that takes aroundn 80 seconds to execute a query. Nginx closes the connection with the upstream server after 60 seconds. This was found in the nginx error log:
upstream prematurely closed connection while reading response header from upstream
The uWSGI and django application logs do not show anything weird.
This is my nginx configuration:
server {
listen 80;
server_name xxxx;
client_max_body_size 10M;
location / {
include uwsgi_params;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
proxy_connect_timeout 10m;
proxy_send_timeout 10m;
proxy_read_timeout 10m;
proxy_buffer_size 64k;
proxy_buffers 16 32k;
proxy_busy_buffers_size 64k;
proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k;
proxy_pass_header Set-Cookie;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_hide_header Vary;
proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding '';
proxy_ignore_headers Cache-Control Expires;
proxy_set_header Referer $http_referer;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header Cookie $http_cookie;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}
}
How do I increase the timeout, I have tried settings the proxy_pass timeout variables but they do no seem to be working.

Answer 1

Okay, so managed to solve this issue by replacing proxy_pass with uwsgi_pass
This is how my nginx conf looks now:
server {
listen 80;
server_name xxxxx;
client_max_body_size 4G;
location /static/ {
alias /home/rmn/workspace/mf-analytics/public/;
}
location / {
include uwsgi_params;
uwsgi_pass unix:/tmp/uwsgi_web.sock;
uwsgi_read_timeout 600;
}
}
And I had to set the socket parameter in my uwsgi ini file.
For some reason, the proxy_pass timeouts just wouldnt take effect.