How do I increase FastCGI read timeout to prevent 504 error on nginx?

Question

I just started using python click module and I would like to have it automatically bring up the '--help' function anytime click throws an error.

test.py

@click.command()
@click.option('--count', default=1, help='Number of greetings.')
@click.option('--name', default=Adam,
              help='The person to great.')
def test(name):
    print name

If I was to run the script from the command line as test.py --no_such_thing. Is there a way I could get the --help to come up instead of the normal :Error no Option --no_such_thing

Solution

Yes, you should use fastcgi_read_timeout. You can find documentation here. According to that, you can specify this parameter either in http, server or location context. So it is also possible to put in into fastcgi.conf and include that file where you setup FastCGI.