Hello Monks, I have a web application that heavily uses a database. The output is a flat-file with calculated observations.

Based on the size/request of the input file, the application can take upto an hour to do all the calculations. This works fine if the application is used within an internal domain (locally). However, the webserver times out everytime I try to run the application remotely (increasing the "time-out" in Apache didnt solve the issue).

What can be a reasonable solution to this problem? Is it possible that a user will make a request on the web to run his/her input file and the request will then be processed in the background and once completed, will prompt the user (via email?) of its completion?

Any ideas?

Thanks.

In reply to Server time-out by dbdiaz

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