Request entity too large error from Nginx when uploading >1MB file

[rmales]

When I try to upload a file to a new Craft site in Nitro I get a 413 (Request Entity Too Large) error from Nginx (which incidentally the Craft uploader Javascript does not catch). I'm sure I could fix this by modifying the Nginx config, but I assume Nitro should come with reasonable defaults for Craft out of the box.

[clarknelson]

I'm curious what you typically set this to? I set to 10MB and larger files I try to offload to CDNs.

[jasonmccallister]

Since this is a development environment, I set the size to 100MB. Will be included in 1.0.0-beta.3.

[clarknelson]

perfect, thank you!

[khalwat]

IMO you should be doing:

    # Disable limits on the maximum allowed size of the client request body
    client_max_body_size 0;

...instead. This then allows Craft to specify any upload limits with maxUploadFileSize

There's no danger in leaving it unrestricted, especially for a local dev environment, if Craft also is layering on a setting that limits it.

Otherwise you're just kicking the can down the road in terms of what is "big enough" of a file size.

c.f.: https://github.com/nystudio107/nginx-craft/blob/master/sites-available/somedomain.com.conf#L52