Webhook Question - Is it Supposed to Timeout?

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In production mode, should the webhook node just keep spinning and spinning or does it auto timeout? I’m trying to make this thing work on a VPS and it’s driving me crazy because the data loads but the workflow is not responding green and then stops…which is not how cron triggers behave. I’ve checked everything from permissions to nginx config over and over and can’t seem to get this thing to just keep going. Is that what it’s suppose to do in production/active mode? Thanks for reading.

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hello @Soupking

I suppose the webhooks have a timeout of 5 minutes. But usually if you have a reverse-proxy/ALB in front of the n8n, then you have a timeout of 1 minute

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ah! thank you! that’s where I last left off. I was hammering things down with claude and we’ve widdled things down to reverse proxy in the services-available config, but there’s no errors! In term or dev tools!

that’s great to know. I’ve spent a few months with AI doing what I come to understand is devops. it’s just hard to know how to isolate something if there’s no response.

that’s such a great thing to understand cuz from proof I know it’s not an n8n thing, but was unsure why it kept behaving like a local non-daemon based application. I’ll be sure to see if that’s lending itself to the problem because I don’t believe from history that it was something custom I did either but I’ll find out.

Gotta have webhooks! LOL

Thanks barn4k!