How to do changes in nginx config file?

Follow the step to remove error "Request Entity Too Large in Nginx with client_max_body_size" you need to change the config file of your nginx sever.

Error: 413 “Request Entity Too Large” in Nginx with “client_max_body_size”

Step 1: Connect to your nginx server with your terminal:

You need to connect your terminal/CMD with ngnix server using below command:

ssh -i YOUR_PEM_FILE.pem YOUR_USERNAME@YOUR_IP -v

Example:

ssh -i pemFile.pem [email protected] -v

Step 2: Go to the config location and open it:

After the successful connection, you need to open the config file of Nginx, The below command should open a file, which is your nginx config file:

sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

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Step 3: Search for this variable "client_max_body_size":

If you find it, just increase its size to 100M ( What ever you want ), If it doesn’t exist, then you can add below code inside and at the end of http:

client_max_body_size 100M;

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Step 4: Save this file:

Now you need to save the changes you’ve made, press Control + O . To exit nano, type Control + X . If you ask nano to exit from a modified file, it will ask you if you want to save it.

Step 5: Restart nginx to apply the changes:

sudo service nginx restart

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Step 6: That's it

Now you should get rid of this problem.

Conclusion:

In this article, we learned how we can get rid of from this nginx problem, and how we can modify the configuration file of nginx server.