Title: Timeout error 524 when doing cron Last modified: September 26, 2020 --- # Timeout error 524 when doing cron * Resolved [rcostabranco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcostabranco/) * (@rcostabranco) * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-error-524-when-doing-cron/) * Hi, first of all, congratulations on your plugin. It’s really, really good! I have installed it on many sites, and it is perfect! * However, in a woo online store, which imports products via an external server, I am having the following problem: * 1. When using your plugin, a cronjob that makes a connection to an external server to import products for woocommerce, is always interrupted after 4 or 5 minutes of activity 2. It gives timeout error 524 3. If I disable your plugin, this cronjob works correctly 4. It also works with the cloudflare proxy (orange cloud) enabled. And with 99% certainty, it also works with the “cache everything” page rule enabled. The error only happens with your plugin enabled (and cache enabled). 5. I did several tests and modifications to the plugin options, but without success. 6. I also created exceptions for bypass (both in the plugin and directly in the cloudflare page rules), urls like: »Domain.com/wp-cron.php* »Domain.com/*doing_wp_cron =* But without success. 7. The cron system we use is the default wordpress 8. Your plugin is installed with the latest version. 9. Server is VPS, NGINX, PHP 7.4. * Could you help me, please? * Thank you very much. Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Plugin Contributor [Salvatore Fresta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salvatorefresta/) * (@salvatorefresta) * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-error-524-when-doing-cron/#post-13457431) * Hi [@rcostabranco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcostabranco/) , strange. Something on log file while cronjob is executed? * Thread Starter [rcostabranco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcostabranco/) * (@rcostabranco) * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-error-524-when-doing-cron/#post-13463500) * Hi [@salvatorefresta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salvatorefresta/), * Sorry for my late reply. * After further testing and looking more closely at the log, I saw / confirmed that every time a new product was inserted a purge was made by your plugin. So, although the day before I thought I had already done this test, the truth is that everything started to work well, after disabling this option: Automatically“ Purge cache for related pages only – (recommended)”. * Now we have another problem, which is to create a cron event to purge the cache. The defined URL returns false when running the cron job. The URL was copied from the “Other” tab: [https://domain.com/?swcfpc=1&swcfpc-purge-all=1&swcfpc-sec-key=123456789abc](https://domain.com/?swcfpc=1&swcfpc-purge-all=1&swcfpc-sec-key=123456789abc) * Could you provide me with the code that should be used to access the page via cron job? * Thank you very much. * Plugin Contributor [Salvatore Fresta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salvatorefresta/) * (@salvatorefresta) * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-error-524-when-doing-cron/#post-13467004) * Hi [@rcostabranco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcostabranco/) , you are right. I fixed the error. Wait the upcoming release but as workaround you can use the following URL: * [https://domain.com/?swcfpc=1&swcfpc-purge-all=123456789abc](https://domain.com/?swcfpc=1&swcfpc-purge-all=123456789abc) * (as workaround, the value of swcfpc-purge-all must be the one of swcfpc-sec-key) * but don’t forget to change this URL with the original one when you update to 4.3.7 * Thread Starter [rcostabranco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcostabranco/) * (@rcostabranco) * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-error-524-when-doing-cron/#post-13469028) * Hi [@salvatorefresta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salvatorefresta/) , * I appreciate the workaround and the fact that you will correct this in the next version. However, this workaround continues to give the same error, it returns false… Thank you. * Plugin Contributor [Salvatore Fresta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salvatorefresta/) * (@salvatorefresta) * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-error-524-when-doing-cron/#post-13470012) * Hi [@rcostabranco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcostabranco/) , can you please send me via email the real URL? * Thread Starter [rcostabranco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcostabranco/) * (@rcostabranco) * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-error-524-when-doing-cron/#post-13470090) * Sent, [@salvatorefresta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salvatorefresta/). Thank you for your support and congratulations on your plugin once again. 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