413 Request Entity Too Large nginx django

Question

I am making a practice web service (client's artbook display web site) The client can upload artbook images to the server.

But I get the following error when the client uploads too many images

413 Request Entity Too Large 

I tried adding client_max_body_size 100M; in nginx.conf

#user  nobody; #Defines which Linux system user will own and run the Nginx server  worker_processes  1;  #error_log  logs/error.log; #error_log  logs/error.log  notice; #Specifies the file where server logs.  #pid        logs/nginx.pid; #nginx will write its master process ID(PID).  events {     worker_connections  1024; }   http {     include       mime.types;      default_type  application/octet-stream;      #access_log  logs/access.log  main;      sendfile        on;      server {         listen       80;          server_name  xxxx.net;         client_max_body_size 100M;         keepalive_timeout 5;          return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;      }      # HTTPS server     #     server {         listen       443 default_server ssl;         server_name  xxx.net;          ssl_certificate      /etc/letsencrypt/live/xxxx.net/fullchain.pem;         ssl_certificate_key  /etc/letsencrypt/live/xxxx.net/privkey.pem;          ssl_session_cache    shared:SSL:1m;         ssl_session_timeout  5m;           location / {             proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;             proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;             proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;             proxy_set_header HOST $http_host;             proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;              proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;             proxy_redirect off;         }     } } 

and tried:

sudo service nginx restart sudo service nginx reload 

and retry

runserver  

but still get

413 Request Entity Too Large 

Can anybody help?

Answer 1

You've fixed the issue on your HTTP server, but your HTTP server is set to 301 redirect to your HTTPS server... your HTTPS server does not have client_max_body_size configured, so it is defaulting to 1M & causing this 413 (Request Entity Too Large) error.

To fix this issue, you simply need to add client_max_body_size to BOTH the HTTP server block and the HTTPS server block, as shown in the example below:

http {     ...     ######################     # HTTP server     ######################     server {         ...         listen       80;         server_name  xxxx.net;         client_max_body_size 100M;         ...     }      ######################     # HTTPS server     ######################     server {         ...         listen       443 default_server ssl;         server_name  xxxx.net;         client_max_body_size 100M;         ...     } } 

More info on client_max_body_size here: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#client_max_body_size

Syntax: client_max_body_size size;

Default: client_max_body_size 1m;

Context: http, server, location

Sets the maximum allowed size of the client request body, specified in the “Content-Length” request header field. If the size in a request exceeds the configured value, the 413 (Request Entity Too Large) error is returned to the client. Please be aware that browsers cannot correctly display this error. Setting size to 0 disables checking of client request body size.

Read More about configuring HTTPS servers here: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html

Answer 2

Open the terminal for Ubuntu

Use nano text editor:

$

sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf 

set client body size to 100M

client_max_body_size 100M; 

Like:

http {          ##         # Basic Settings         ##         client_max_body_size 100M;         sendfile on;         tcp_nopush on;         tcp_nodelay on;         keepalive_timeout 65;         types_hash_max_size 2048;         # server_tokens off;          # server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;         # server_name_in_redirect off;          include /etc/nginx/mime.types;         default_type application/octet-stream;          ##         # SSL Settings         ## More codes here ...  }