524 errors - modify PHP script to allow more than 100 seconds run

Website, Application, Performance
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I’ve been searching this forum and all the www for a solution to this issue and I understand that for free accounts, there is this maximum 100 seconds HTTP response rule.

So how to enable running a PHP script that takes more than 100 seconds, without upgrading?

This is what I’ve tried:

  1. adding the following code in my script (found on github):
$spacer_size = 2048; // increment me until it works
echo str_pad('', (1024 * $spacer_size), "\n"); // send 8kb of new line to browser (default), just make sure that this new line will not affect your code.
if(ob_get_level()) ob_end_clean(); // end output buffering

sleep(110);
echo "WOW, you waited me for 110 seconds.";
  1. added a WAF rule for the script URL so CF will skip all options listed there (to be honestly I don’t even know if WAF has anything to do with the 100 seconds time limit)
    cf
    cf697×610 38.6 KB

Ideas? Can it be increased? How?

4

The only way to increase is to pay for enterprise. Otherwise, if you need longer then 100 seconds you need to not use Cloudflare in front of your server.

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5

If it’s an admin task I run from my own computer, I add my server IP address to my local hosts file, so I’m connecting directly.