504 Gateway Timeout on Synology NAS

Looks familiar?

I want to move this blog to my own NAS because I have plenty enough bandwidth and with Cloudflare as reverse proxy it is secure enough also (and I like to hobby off course 😉 ).

I tried to use the Duplicator WordPress plugin to make a dump of my website and do a restore in the Synology Webstation. But during the database restore in step 2 every time I was getting a 504 gateway timeout after a minute (exactly 60 seconds).

What I could have done was a manual (ftp & database) copy and restore the files. But I was sure I was getting other errors in the future when I had to update WordPress or other plugins. So fixing this timeout issue was the only solution.

On different places on the internet, I found that I had change the Nginx site settings. So I put the timeout settings in the associated “/etc/nginx/conf.d/site.conf” and restart Nginx and restore the database Nginx was still was failing.

    proxy_connect_timeout 600s;
    proxy_send_timeout 600s;
    proxy_read_timeout 600s;
    send_timeout 600s;

Then I’ll try to put these lines in the “/etc/nginx/nginx.conf” but when I restart the nginx the settings were overwritten and my changes are gone.

Every time you restart, Nginx Synology make use of a file “/usr/syno/share/nginx/nginx.mustache” to create a new nginx.conf file. I change the lines in that file and *boom* everything was working 🙂

So TLDR;

sudo su -
vim /usr/syno/share/nginx/nginx.mustache

#add these lines
    send_timeout                  600s;
    proxy_connect_timeout         600s;
    proxy_send_timeout            600s;
    proxy_read_timeout            600s;

synoservice --restart nginx

If you want to see the current Nginx config

nginx -T 

Have fun 🙂