Cant find Laravel valet nginx and php configration file directory

I am using Laravel valet and working on getting data from API which takes more than 3 minutes to return result. Now the problem is when I use curl or get_file_contents, I get timeout in 60 seconds and no matter which ini settings I add with code it doesn't change. So I searched how I can change nginx and PHP config settings in Laravel valet and the solution was to find the files in following directory:usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

The problem is that in my latest mac OS there is no folder called etc in usr/local diretory. Can anyone please help me. I really want to bypass this and make it work but I cant find any solution.

I tried adding following code in PHP script to avoid changing configuration files but it didn't work and I still get timeout at 60 seconds.

ini_set('max_execution_time', 2400); set_time_limit(900);

Also I tried using curl request with following settings: $ch=curl_init(); $timeout=2400; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout); $result=curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch);

I just checked my valet logs and it shows following

2022/12/22 23:52:12 [error] 876#0: *2343 upstream timed out (60: Operation timed out) while reading response header from upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: , request: "POST /admin/ajax HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/Users/username/.config/valet/valet.sock", host: "localsite.test", referrer: "http://localsite.test/admin/add-user"