This short post specifically targets:
– RoR as web development environment – Can be ignored as this is closely related to nginx configuration settings
– Nginx as web server

While working with ElasticBeanstalk environments, one of my requirement was to send a heavy job to Worker App that takes > 1 min (60 seconds) to complete and I had no configuration in place. The way beanstalk-app was handling that job was disappointing. That job never finishes within a minute and another job (duplicate) gets triggered by the app and this goes on till it reaches the max retry count.

I tried googling the solution and found that we have to increase the timeout for the web server which is handling the request. In my case it was `nginx`.

So I decided to write a config file under `.ebextensions/02_nginx_proxy.config` — I am not going into the details of `ebextensions` here as this is out of scope of this article.

Here’s how my config file looks like:

Here if you focus on lines:
`proxy_send_timeout 600;`
`proxy_read_timeout 1h;`
`send_timeout 600;`

This will prevent sending multiple requests of same job type until the current one finishes in 1h.

If you need any inputs on what other lines are all about/doing, then leave your comment.

Happy Coding!