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The nginx webserver has a max. body size limit of 1 MB for requests as default. This might be too low for file uploads in scripts and you will see the following error message when you try to upload a file:

 413 Request Entity Too Large

The configuration variable for this option is “client_max_body_size” and it can be set in the http, server and location sections of the nginx configuration file. To set the Limit globally to 25 MB, edit the nginx.conf file and add:

client_max_body_size 20M;

in the http section.

Example for Ubuntu Linux:

user www-data;
worker_processes 4;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
        worker_connections 768;
        # multi_accept on;
}

http {
        geoip_country  /etc/nginx/geoip/GeoIP.dat; # the country IP database
        geoip_city     /etc/nginx/geoip/GeoLiteCity.dat; # the city IP database
        ##
        # Basic Settings
        ##

        sendfile on;
        tcp_nopush on;
        tcp_nodelay on;
        keepalive_timeout 65;
        types_hash_max_size 2048;

        client_max_body_size 20M;

        include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
        default_type application/octet-stream;

        ##
        # Logging Settings
        ##

        access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

        ##
        # Gzip Settings
        ##

        gzip on;
        gzip_disable "msie6";

        ##
        # Virtual Host Configs
        ##

        include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
        include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}