Increase Timeout for ASP.NET Core applications

Recently we came across a situation where in we had to increase the timeout of a aspnet web application, by default an aspnet core project does not generate a web.config file and did not find enough documentation on how to modify the appsetting.json file.

 

Google always ended up showing on how to do that in a web.config, which we did not have. After playing around we found that we could add a web.config to the solution

 

 

And add the following, there might be better ways of doing it, but wonder why Visual Studio (using 2017) does not add a web.config file automatically ?? maybe another blog post.

 

1. <?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“utf-8”?>  
   
2. <configuration>  
   
3.   
    
4.   <!– To customize the asp.net core module uncomment and edit the following section.   
   
5.   For more info see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=838655 –>  
   
6.     
    
7.   <system.webServer>  
   
8.     <handlers>  
   
9.       <remove name=“aspNetCore”/>  
   
10.       <add name=“aspNetCore” path=“*” verb=“*” modules=“AspNetCoreModule” resourceType=“Unspecified”/>  
    
11.     </handlers>  
    
12.     <aspNetCore processPath=“%LAUNCHER_PATH%” arguments=“%LAUNCHER_ARGS%” stdoutLogEnabled=“false” stdoutLogFile=“.\logs\stdout”   
    
13.                 requestTimeout=“00:20:00”/>  
    
14.   </system.webServer>  
    
15.     
     
16. </configuration>  
    

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