Friction

Pain point · Data export & migration · Causes churn

Large app export fails with 504 timeout after two minutes

3 source threads · first seen 2022-11 · last seen 2023-10

Summary

Exporting an app larger than 50MB on a self-hosted install times out after two minutes even after raising the nginx limit.

Affects
self-hosted user with a large app
Workaround
Raised the nginx timeout, which did not help

Evidence

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“When I try to import a application which has been exported from my cloud version, the import fails”

“But all my apps imports fail”

“my app is large (more than 50MB) and it exceeds the timeout during export even though i increased the limit in nginx”

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