I have a debian with WordPress on dedicate server using Nginx.
During a du/df check, I catched une very huge file "/usr/share/nginx/on" with about 400Go size
Is it ok ?
If not, what is this file and how to reduce size ?
Thank
This is an access log, a result of NGINX misconfiguration. This isn't fine.
In your NGINX configuration, you likely have:
access_log on;
This is incorrect and should be changed to the desired path of an access log. (Or simply remove the directive if you don't care about access logs).
I have an Artifactory behind nginx and uploading files larger than 4 GB fails. I am fairly certain that this is nginx's fault, because if the file is uploaded from/to localhost, no problem occurs.
nginx is set up to have client_max_body_size and client_body_timeout large enough for this not to be an issue.
Still, when uploading a large file (>4 GB) via curl, after about half a minute it fails. The only error message I get is HTTP 500 Internal Server Error, nothing is written to the nginx's error logs.
The problem in my case was insufficient disk space mounted on root. I have a huge disk mounted on /home, but only had about 4 GB left on /. I assume that nginx was saving incoming request bodies there and after it had filled up, the request was shut down.
The way I fixed it was to add those lines to the nginx.conf file (not all of them are necessarily required):
http {
(...)
client_max_body_size 100G;
client_body_timeout 300s;
client_body_in_file_only clean;
client_body_buffer_size 16K;
client_body_temp_path /home/nginx/client_body_temp;
}
The last line is the important part - there I tell nginx to fiddle with its files in the /home space.
I get an error that says "The connection was reset" immediately when I upload a file over a certain size, I think it's over around 4MB.
My web server is running on nginx, I tried set client_max_body_size 1G or even setting to 0, no success.
I'd be glad to hear a solution.
Thanks!
I just had to restart the nginx service by using sudo service nginx restart and it solved itself!
In my case, the file was bigger than the allowed size by NGINX in the setting "client_max_body_size". To change this setting open in your terminal the file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and add the following inside the http section:
http {
...
client_max_body_size 128m; #Any desired size in MB
...
}
In nginx versions from 1.0 and above, this setting is not included by default in the nginx.conf file.
I have nginx and php5-fpm working wonderfully, and www.mysite.com, this.mysite.com, and that.mysite.com all go to different directories elegantly. I have been working on a site for uploading files. I'd like the maximum file size to be 10 GB. For this to work, I have to tell php.ini that max_post_size and upload_max_filesize are 10240 MB instead of the default 2 MB.
I am well aware of the security implications. I would therefore like those php.ini values of 10240 MB to apply ONLY to one or both of:
upload.mysite.com
and/or
www.mysite.com/upload
One option is to also install Apache to listen on a different port, do some redirect/rewrite magic, and have mod_php's php.ini file with the 10240 MB values handle only the uploads site. I'd prefer to not do that.
WITHOUT having a separate web server handle requests to my upload page, how can I accomplish this in a single instance of nginx?
Use client_max_body_size and set it to the desired value in your server blocks. Nginx will directly drop the handling of the request if the request body exceeds the size specified in this directive. Please note that you won't get any POST submitted in that case.
With php-fpm you can have several pools running, one for each website.
Then you can alter any php.ini setting inside the pool configuration (but be carefull, you cannot use MB or G shortcuts), using this syntax inside the pool:
; UPLOAD
php_admin_flag[file_uploads] =1
php_admin_value[upload_tmp_dir]="/some/path/var/tmp"
;Maximum allowed size for uploaded files. 10240MB *1024 *1024 -> 10737418240
php_value[upload_max_filesize] ="10737418240"
php_admin_value[max_input_time] = (...)
php_admin_value[post_max_size] (...)
This is really near the available syntax for Apache virtualhosts. PHP configuration has never been stuck in php.ini files.
As you can see you can use php_value or php_admin_value, the big difference is that when using php_value the setting can later be altered by the application, using ini_set command. So you could use a low value for upload_max_filesize and alter it in the application only on the upload script.
nginx keeps saying client intended to send too large body. Googling and RTM pointed me to client_max_body_size. I set it to 200m in the nginx.conf as well as in the vhost conf, restarted Nginx a couple of times but I'm still getting the error message.
Did I overlook something? The backend is php-fpm (max_post_size and max_upload_file_size are set accordingly).
Following nginx documentation, you can set client_max_body_size 20m ( or any value you need ) in the following context:
context: http, server, location
NGINX large uploads are successfully working on hosted WordPress sites, finally (as per suggestions from nembleton & rjha94)
I thought it might be helpful for someone, if I added a little clarification to their suggestions. For starters, please be certain you have included your increased upload directive in ALL THREE separate definition blocks (server, location & http). Each should have a separate line entry. The result will like something like this (where the ... reflects other lines in the definition block):
http {
...
client_max_body_size 200M;
}
(in my ISPconfig 3 setup, this block is in the /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file)
server {
...
client_max_body_size 200M;
}
location / {
...
client_max_body_size 200M;
}
(in my ISPconfig 3 setup, these blocks are in the /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf file)
Also, make certain that your server's php.ini file is consistent with these NGINX settings. In my case, I changed the setting in php.ini's File_Uploads section to read:
upload_max_filesize = 200M
Note: if you are managing an ISPconfig 3 setup (my setup is on CentOS 6.3, as per The Perfect Server), you will need to manage these entries in several separate files. If your configuration is similar to one in the step-by-step setup, the NGINX conf files you need to modify are located here:
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
My php.ini file was located here:
/etc/php.ini
I continued to overlook the http {} block in the nginx.conf file. Apparently, overlooking this had the effect of limiting uploading to the 1M default limit. After making the associated changes, you will also want to be sure to restart your NGINX and PHP FastCGI Process Manager (PHP-FPM) services. On the above configuration, I use the following commands:
/etc/init.d/nginx restart
/etc/init.d/php-fpm restart
As of March 2016, I ran into this issue trying to POST json over https (from python requests, not that it matters).
The trick is to put "client_max_body_size 200M;" in at least two places http {} and server {}:
1. the http directory
Typically in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
2. the server directory in your vhost.
For Debian/Ubuntu users who installed via apt-get (and other distro package managers which install nginx with vhosts by default), thats /etc/nginx/sites-available/mysite.com, for those who do not have vhosts, it's probably your nginx.conf or in the same directory as it.
3. the location / directory in the same place as 2.
You can be more specific than /, but if its not working at all, i'd recommend applying this to / and then once its working be more specific.
Remember - if you have SSL, that will require you to set the above for the SSL server and location too, wherever that may be (ideally the same as 2.). I found that if your client tries to upload on http, and you expect them to get 301'd to https, nginx will actually drop the connection before the redirect due to the file being too large for the http server, so it has to be in both.
Recent comments suggest that there is an issue with this on SSL with newer nginx versions, but i'm on 1.4.6 and everything is good :)
You need to apply following changes:
Update php.ini (Find right ini file from phpinfo();) and increase post_max_size and upload_max_filesize to size you want:
sed -i "s/post_max_size =.*/post_max_size = 200M/g" /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini
sed -i "s/upload_max_filesize =.*/upload_max_filesize = 200M/g" /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini```
Update NginX settings for your website and add client_max_body_size value in your location, http, or server context.
location / {
client_max_body_size 200m;
...
}
Restart NginX and PHP-FPM:
service nginx restart
service php5-fpm restart
NOTE: Sometime (In my case almost every time) you need to kill php-fpm process if it didn't refresh by service command properly. To do that you can get list of processes (ps -elf | grep php-fpm) and kill one by one (kill -9 12345) or use following command to do it for you:
ps -elf | grep php-fpm | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $4 }' | xargs kill -9
Please see if you are setting client_max_body_size directive inside http {} block and not inside location {} block. I have set it inside http{} block and it works
Someone correct me if this is bad, but I like to lock everything down as much as possible, and if you've only got one target for uploads (as it usually the case), then just target your changes to that one file. This works for me on the Ubuntu nginx-extras mainline 1.7+ package:
location = /upload.php {
client_max_body_size 102M;
fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE "upload_max_filesize=102M \n post_max_size=102M";
(...)
}
I had a similar problem recently and found out, that client_max_body_size 0; can solve such an issue. This will set client_max_body_size to no limit. But the best practice is to improve your code, so there is no need to increase this limit.
I meet the same problem, but I found it nothing to do with nginx. I am using nodejs as backend server, use nginx as a reverse proxy, 413 code is triggered by node server. node use koa parse the body. koa limit the urlencoded length.
formLimit: limit of the urlencoded body. If the body ends up being larger than this limit, a 413 error code is returned. Default is 56kb.
set formLimit to bigger can solve this problem.
Assuming you have already set the client_max_body_size and various PHP settings (upload_max_filesize / post_max_size , etc) in the other answers, then restarted or reloaded NGINX and PHP without any result, run this...
nginx -T
This will give you any unresolved errors in your NGINX configs. In my case, I struggled with the 413 error for a whole day before I realized there were some other unresolved SSL errors in the NGINX config (wrong pathing for certs) that needed to be corrected. Once I fixed the unresolved issues I got from 'nginx -T', reloaded NGINX, and EUREKA!! That fixed it.
I'm setting up a dev server to play with that mirrors our outdated live one, I used The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 14.04 (nginx, BIND, MySQL, PHP, Postfix, Dovecot and ISPConfig 3)
After experiencing the same issue, I came across this post and nothing was working. I changed the value in every recommended file (nginx.conf, ispconfig.vhost, /sites-available/default, etc.)
Finally, changing client_max_body_size in my /etc/nginx/sites-available/apps.vhost and restarting nginx is what did the trick. Hopefully it helps someone else.
In case you are using Kubernetes, add the following annotations to your Ingress:
annotations:
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/client-max-body-size: "5m"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/client-body-buffer-size: "8k"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-body-size: "5m"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-buffer-size: "8k"
Confirm the changes were applied:
kubectl -n <namespace> describe ingress <ingress-name>
References:
Client Body Buffer Size
Custom max body size
Had the same issue that the client_max_body_size directive was ignored.
My silly error was, that I put a file inside /etc/nginx/conf.d which did not end with .conf. Nginx will not load these by default.
If you tried the above options and no success, also you're using IIS (iisnode) to host your node app, putting this code on web.config resolved the problem for me:
Here is the reference: https://www.inflectra.com/support/knowledgebase/kb306.aspx
Also, you can chagne the length allowed because now I think its 2GB. Modify it by your needs.
<security>
<requestFiltering>
<requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="2147483648" />
</requestFiltering>
</security>
The following config worked for me. Notice I only set client_max_body_size 50M; once, contrary to what others are saying...
File: /etc/nginx/conf.d/sites.conf
server {
listen 80 default_server;
server_name portal.myserver.com;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
server {
resolver 127.0.0.11 valid=30s;
listen 443 ssl default_server;
listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
ssl_certificate /secret/portal.myserver.com.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /secret/portal.myserver.com.pem;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
server_name portal.myserver.com;
client_max_body_size 50M;
location /fileserver/ {
set $upstream http://fileserver:6976;
proxy_pass $upstream;
}
}
If you are using windows version nginx, you can try to kill all nginx process and restart it to see.
I encountered same issue In my environment, but resolved it with this solution.