I have a PHP file in my /batch/ folder I run with an hourly CRON job. Unfortunately this process can often take a few minutes to complete so I have had to increase my fastcgi_read_timeout to 300 seconds for the entire server.

I was wondering if it would be possible to change the fastcgi_read_timeout directive for only files in my /batch/ folder and not the entire server. For example something like this...

location ~ \.php$ {
    fastcgi_pass   localhost:9000;  
    fastcgi_read_timeout 5;

    location /batch/ {
                fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
        }

    include /usr/local/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params;
}

So basically all PHP files on the server would have a 5 second timeout except PHP files in my /batch/ folder. Is this possible?