Topic: How to get rid of "Gateway TimeOut" problem?

[jack01]

Hi,
I have installed Apache 2.4 64-bit on Windows 2008 R2 and it was working fine for a long time. I have upgraded it to: https://www.apachelounge.com/download/VC10/binaries/httpd-2.4.23-win64.zip like a month ago without a problem for whole month, so probably upgrade is not a cause of the problem.

Server is using CGI scripts. Some users have started to report they are getting the "Gateway Timeout" error with details: "The gateway did not receive a timely response from the upstream server or application."

I don't know it looks to me some setting like 60 second or similar is set to timeout.

I have searched the web and found out plenty of forum posts:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9629566/how-to-increase-apache-timeout-directive-in-htaccess
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26742580/504-gateway-time-out-the-server-didnt-respond-in-time-how-to-fix-it
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/270655/how-to-find-and-edit-apache-timeout
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9629566/how-to-increase-apache-timeout-directive-in-htaccess
https://serverfault.com/questions/277386/apache-2-2-cgi-timeout-configuration
all more or less pointing to TimeOut directive.

Looking at official Apache httpd 2.4 documentation for TimeOut:
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#timeout
and there is info:
Default: TimeOut 60

To test if this is the setting I am looking for I have set it to absurd low number. At the end of httpd.conf file I have set:
TimeOut 5

and restarted Apache2.4 Windows service. Tested and it looks like it has no effect. I get no error at 5 seconds.

Any idea what may be the setting I am looking for and where/how to set it?
Thanks

[jack01]

Hi,
it looks like TimeOut is actually working fine. Now I have set the TimeOut to be the second command in httpd.conf (right after ServerRoot) and set it to 5 seconds and it looks like browser web page freezes instead of returning Gateway Timeout. I wasn't expected this.

But setting "TimeOut 300" and my problem disappeared.

P.S. Maybe there is also important where in the httpd.conf file this command is located, I have found one web page with example at the second place, so I did it this way.
Thanks