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sudhir shakya
sudhir shakya

Reputation: 897

Large file upload to nginx fails

I am using nginx as a reverse proxy. The client application uploads several image files in a POST request. The request is usually between 8M and 9M for the larger requests. I have tried multiple options including setting the client_max_body_size. I have increased the value to 300M. I have also tried some other options.

The nginx configuration file is as follows:

server {
    listen 443 ssl ;
    server_name app.example.com;
    charset utf-8;
    client_max_body_size 200M;
    # client_body_in_file_only on;
    # client_body_temp_path /var/spool/nginx;
    # client_body_buffer_size 32K;
    location / {
        alias /var/www/html/;
        try_files $uri /index.html;
    }
    location /api {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8092/api;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
    }
}

The error log is

[error] 22959#22959: *4 client intended to send too large body: 8326396 bytes, client:

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5193

Answers (1)

ErvalhouS
ErvalhouS

Reputation: 4216

You may be running into config scoping problems, try declaring client_max_body_size 200M; inside the http{} block. You will find it on /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

If that doesn't work, try declaring inside the specific location{} block.

If that doesn't work, maybe there is some error in you configuration which you can check using

$ nginx -t

Try restarting your server instead of only reloading it, if there is no errors with:

$ service nginx restart

If after all that you have no success, maybe you have a problem in your API's max upload size, which varies greatly depending in your's system stack on how to fix it.

Upvotes: 2

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