hi maxim thanks for the reply

i cant find out where these files and variables are on my hosting to edit i have checked all files in my nginx folder and i cant see those options in there anywhere.

will there just be a file with

proxy_pass
fastcgi_pass
proxy_read_timeout
fastcgi_read_timeout.

i tried editing the nginx.conf file to

http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;

#log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
# '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
# '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

#access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;

sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
#keepalive_timeout 0;
keepalive_timeout 120;
#tcp_nodelay on;

#gzip on;
#gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";

server_tokens off;

server {
location / {
fastcgi_read_timeout 900s; # 15 minutes
}
}
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}

am i doing this correctly?