413 Request Entity Too Large - File Upload Issue

Question

I am trying to upload 30MB file on my server and its not working.

1. When I upload 30MB file, the page loads "Page Not Found"

2. When I upload a 3MB file, I receive "413 Request Entity Too Large" with nginx/0.6.32

I am trying to find nginx so I can increase "client_max_body_size" but I am unable to find nginx installed on my server. I even tried running:

vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

or

vi /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf

to check if the config file exists, but I couldnt find it on my server.

Is there anyway to resolve this issue? Or do I have to installed nginx on my server.

EDIT:

I have made all necessary changes in my php.ini files,

post_max_size 128M
upload_max_filesize 100M
memory_limit 256M

Thanks, Raju

Answer 1

Please enter domain nginx file :

nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/domain.set

Add to file this code

client_max_body_size 24000M;

If you get error use this command

nginx -t

Answer 2

First edit the Nginx configuration file (nginx.conf)

Location: sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Add following codes:

http {
        client_max_body_size 100M;
}

Then Add the following lines in PHP configuration file(php.ini)

Location: sudo gedit /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini

Add following codes:

memory_limit = 128M 
post_max_size = 20M  
upload_max_filesize = 10M

Answer 3

I got the upload working with above changes. But when I made the changes I started getting 404 response in file upload which lead me to do further debugging and figured out its a permission issue by checking nginx error.log

Solution:

Check the current user and group ownership on /var/lib/nginx.

$ ls -ld /var/lib/nginx

drwx------. 3 nginx nginx 17 Oct 5 19:31 /var/lib/nginx

This tells that a possibly non-existent user and group named nginx owns this folder. This is preventing file uploading.

In my case, the username mentioned in "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf" was

user vagrant; 

Change the folder ownership to the user defined in nginx.conf in this case vagrant.

$ sudo chown -Rf vagrant:vagrant /var/lib/nginx

Verify that it actually changed.

$ ls -ld /var/lib/nginx
drwx------. 3 vagrant vagrant 17 Oct  5 19:31 /var/lib/nginx

Reload nginx and php-fpm for safer sade.

$ sudo service nginx reload
$ sudo service php-fpm reload

The permission denied error should now go away. Check the error.log (based on nginx.conf error_log location).

$ sudo nano /path/to/nginx/error.log