# How to modify nginx conf with AWX Kubernetes (awx-operator)

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-modify-nginx-conf-with-awx-kubernetes-awx-operator/10168>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** awx-operator, awx, kubernetes\
**Created:** [October 10, 2024, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-modify-nginx-conf-with-awx-kubernetes-awx-operator/10168 "2024-10-10T19:47:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![gsi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gsi/32/5109_2.png) [@gsi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gsi)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-modify-nginx-conf-with-awx-kubernetes-awx-operator/10168/1 "2024-10-10T19:47:22Z")

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Hello,

I probably need to modify some nginx settings in my AWX controller (especially about timeout) but when running on Kubernetes (with awx-operator) I do not figure out how to do because :

- Any change in `<controller>-awx-configmap` is overwritten by the operator.
- And operator CRD doesn’t seem to offer nginx params in specs section when we create a AWX controller instance.

More about my context: I’m using awx.awx collection and awxkit to manage assets on AWX but when I import large amount of data I’m facing some `Connection timed out` in controller-web (ok with few data amount). So I assume that is caused by a timeout on controller front (nginx) and I already increased the Ingress timeout.

Thanks for any advise

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**Author:** ![gsi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gsi/32/5109_2.png) [@gsi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gsi)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-modify-nginx-conf-with-awx-kubernetes-awx-operator/10168/2 "2024-10-11T14:36:58Z")

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This old merge [PR #1145](https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/pull/1145) should respond to my usecase 🙂  
I’ll test it and let you know here…

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**Author:** ![gsi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gsi/32/5109_2.png) [@gsi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gsi)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-modify-nginx-conf-with-awx-kubernetes-awx-operator/10168/3 "2024-10-11T15:41:33Z")

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So no problem to add extra nginx conf using a new `ConfigMap`, `extra_volumes` and `extra_volume_mount` in AWX instance, but unfortunately it doesn’t reply to my need because if the nginx setting is already set (e.g. `uwsgi_read_timeout 120s;`) we cannot overwrite anyway because it results in a double param declaration and nginx will fail to start…

And I’m quitte sure this is exactly this nginx param I need to increase as per log below (120s timeout for uwsgi) 😕

```auto
2024-10-11 15:24:35,196 INFO [afed0e746e32444695bc0e36b0c33225] awx.api.authentication User admin performed a POST to /api/v2/execution_environments/ through the API using OAuth 2 token 336.
2024/10/11 15:26:35 [error] 19#19: *48 upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out) while reading response header from upstream, client: 10.166.2.2, server: _, request: "POST /api/v2/execution_environments/ HTTP/1.1", upstream: "uwsgi://127.0.0.1:8050", host: 

```

Back to start line… 😄