A Frustrating Battle with Nginx and FastCGI Timeouts – How I Finally Resolved It
Introduction As someone who works in software and systems engineering, you sometimes run into those deeply frustrating issues that feel like they’re consuming more time and energy than they should. Recently, I faced one of these moments with my Moodle and Streamlit applications running on Nginx, which both suddenly stopped working properly.
The issues started small — slow load times, occasional failure to load a page, and eventually, full-on timeouts. Nginx kept throwing alerts in the error logs about open sockets, and my pages would refuse to load.
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