[Paid Feature] Crash when uploading large files

[mhbu50]

I am trying to upload 100 mb file as attachment in ERPNext but webpage get crach while uploading!!!
I set "max_file_size": 500000000 in site_config just in case .
see what happen:

[mhbu50]

Please give me estimate of how much it will cost and how long it will take to add this feature to frappe.

[rmehta]

@mhbu50 we might have to use socket.io for such uploads

https://www.npmjs.com/package/socket.io-file

Its a bit experimental, so might take time. Can your client sponsor $500?

[felixvarghese]

@mhbu50 assuming there is nothing inherently built into Frappe that makes large uploads impossible, you would also need to play with your nginx and gunicorn configurations to allow file uploads of this size.

For nginx, you would need to look at the following variables in particular.
client_max_body_size
client_body_timeout

For gunicorn, you would most likely need to increase the timeout. Do this in supervisor with the following flags
--timeout 300

There are a lot of threads on google about this, but most of them involve django. The advice and steps will be the same for frappe though.

[rmehta]

@felixvarghese I think the key is timeout, which depends on bandwidth. Today you want 100MB tomorrow you may want 1GB. uploading in chunks via socketio is the best solution IMO. As a bonus you also get a progress indicator 😄

[mhbu50]

@rmehta Thanks for your respond, my client is ready to sponsor $500 for this.
How can we proceed?

[PrakashH]

@mhbu50 Thanks for your interest in sponsoring. Will reply you via Opportunity.

[rmehta]

@mhbu50 can you check and approve this fix? #4100

[mhbu50]

@rmehta Checked and Approved 👍

[rmehta]

Thanksl Let me write a couple of test cases and wrap it up.