diff --git a/webapi/src/main/resources/application.conf b/webapi/src/main/resources/application.conf
index fee7817fb1..662c7ac16f 100644
--- a/webapi/src/main/resources/application.conf
+++ b/webapi/src/main/resources/application.conf
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ pekko {
             idle-timeout = 479999 ms // 480 s
 
             parsing {
-                max-chunk-size             = 2m
+                max-chunk-size = 2m
                 max-response-reason-length = 1024
             }
         }
@@ -461,10 +461,10 @@ app {
         host = ${?KNORA_WEBAPI_TRIPLESTORE_HOST}
 
         // timeout for triplestore queries. can be same or lower then pekko.http.server.request-timeout.
-        query-timeout = 20 seconds
+        query-timeout = 2000 seconds
 
         // timeout for Gravsearch queries. can be same or lower then pekko.http.server.request-timeout.
-        gravsearch-timeout = 120 seconds
+        gravsearch-timeout = 12000 seconds
 
         // triplestore auto init. initialize triplestore at startup if necessary.
         auto-init = false