I am running Django, FastCGI, and Nginx. I am creating an api of sorts that where someone can send some data via XML which I will process and then return some status codes for each node that was sent over.

The problem is that Nginx will throw a 504 Gateway Time-out if I take too long to process the XML -- I think longer than 60 seconds.

So I would like to set up Nginx so that if any requests matching the location /api will not time out for 120 seconds. What setting will accomplish that.

What I have so far is:

    # Handles all api calls 
    location ^~ /api/ { 
        proxy_read_timeout 120; 
        proxy_connect_timeout 120; 
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8080; 
    } 

Edit: What I have is not working :)