Trying to set file upload limit in mup/nginx-proxy

Question

I am running into a file upload error with files > 10M. I have followed the advice here: http://meteor-up.com/docs.html#advanced-configuration which says how to set it in the nginx proxy by setting the clientUploadLimit: '50M'

I pushed the changes using mup proxy reconfig-shared, and it told me it had restarted the proxy. It didn't work, I still get the 413 (Request Entity Too Large) error.

I checked inside the nginx-proxy docker instance, and the file /etc/nginx/conf.d/my_proxy.conf has the correct entry client_max_body_size 50M. I restarted the EC2 box to make sure, but it's still not working.

This article https://www.tecmint.com/limit-file-upload-size-in-nginx/ suggests that the setting needs to go inside a http block, like this:

By default, Nginx has a limit of 1MB on file uploads. To set file upload size, you can use the client_max_body_size directive, which is part of Nginx’s ngx_http_core_module module. This directive can be set in the http, server or location context.

http {
    client_max_body_size 100M;
}

I can't see how to achieve this, as the .conf file is read only and somehow locked.

Any ideas on how to proceed?

I suppose I could try a custom nginx.conf file, but I'm not sure what should go in there, and in fact whether it will even improve the situation.

Any help is appreciated :)

Answer 1

I'm happy to report that I solved it... I will explain how.

I was setting the limit in the nginx reverse proxy in the mup.js file

  proxy: {
    domains: 'website.com,www.website.com',
    shared: { clientUploadLimit: '50M' }
  }

But it turns out that there is an option to set it for each independent server like this:

  proxy: {
    domains: 'website.com,www.website.com',
    clientUploadLimit: '50M'
  }

The limit was being set to 10M by default. I found it by shelling into the nginx-proxy docker image and doing a search with the command grep -R client_max_body_size /etc/nginx and it showed me all the places where it was set (for each vhost)

So I changed the mup.js file for my server, did a mup stop, and a mup setup (to re-do the settings) and then a mup deploy

Answer 2

Now this is speculation but have you tried going to the docker container's root shell changed the permissions to give write permission to root or your user chmod 760 /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and edit the nginx file there?