Question
OpenWebUI, using marketplace droplet, timeout issue after 60s
- Posted on May 5, 2025
- DigitalOcean DropletsDigitalOcean 1-Click Apps Marketplace
Asked by 455e2f8b151242779fd7b3e2355fe2
Hi everyone,
I’m hosting OpenWebUI on DigitalOcean using the official marketplace droplet. I’m using OpenWebUI as a frontend for my AI agent in n8n, connected via this community pipe: 🔗 https://openwebui.com/f/coleam/n8n_pipe
Everything works great except when the request takes longer than ~60 seconds — OpenWebUI shows an error, even though the n8n workflow is still running and finishes successfully.
Has anyone faced this issue or knows how to increase the timeout or keep the connection alive? I’d appreciate any help or ideas!
Thanks 🙏
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Hey there!
Since you’re using the OpenWebUI 1-Click Droplet, and based on the install script, the app runs directly in Docker, so it sounds like that the 60-second timeout likely comes from inside OpenWebUI itself, probably either the frontend or backend.
You can check if there’s an environment variable or config option to increase the timeout, but if it’s not documented, it’s worth opening an issue on the OpenWebUI GitHub repo.
Also, feel free to raise this on the DigitalOcean 1-Click GitHub repo, it might help improve the 1-Click setup in future updates.
- Bobby