How I configured NIGINX + Valet to stop the 504 Gateway Time out during long XDebug Sessions

#php #tutorial #nginx #xdebug

In this video I explain how to stop NGINX (installed via Valet) from 504 Gateway Time-out during long XDebug sessions.

By default this is set to 30 seconds, so if I was debugging something for longer than 30 seconds it would timeout and I would have to restart my xDebug session — annoying!

After doing some research, I finally figured out how to include an NGINX configuration file with these configurations:

proxy_connect_timeout 1200;

proxy_read_timeout 1200;
proxy_send_timeout 1200;

fastcgi_read_timeout 1200;
fastcgi_send_timeout 1200;

Note, you can add these directly to /opt/homebrew/etc/nginx/nginx.conf before any Valet configs are loaded, e.g.:

    proxy_connect_timeout 1200;
    proxy_read_timeout 1200;
    proxy_send_timeout 1200;
    fastcgi_read_timeout 1200;
    fastcgi_send_timeout 1200;

    include "/Users/<user>/.config/valet/Nginx/*";
    include servers/*;
    include valet/valet.conf;

...but I opted to use include and load a configuration file that way.

I also review some updates to my last video on my XDebug configuration and how I also configured PHP timeouts to also be higher.

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