Mayan-EDMS - default max upload size

[wildgarden]

Freshly installed Mayan-EDMS appliance (15) uses nginx default upload size of 1 MB. In practice this value is too low and a upload of a huge document results in a 413 (Request Entity Too Large) error.
The value has to be manually adjusted in the nginx conf (client_max_body_size).
https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#client_max_body_size

[JedMeister]

Great catch! Thanks for that.

Just for clarity, have you adjusted the client_max_body_size within the location block? Or somewhere else?

Also what do you think a reasonable default is? 50MB?

I propose that we add something like this:

    client_max_body_size 50M;  # Increase to upload bigger documents
    proxy_read_timeout 30s;  # Increase if your document uploads take more than 30 seconds

[wildgarden]

I tested both, first the global http in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and later the server block in /etc/nginx/sites-available/mayan. I think location should work, too.

Regarding a sane default value: I think, in general 50MB might be enough for a typical user. But I have some PDFs > 100 MB. Thus I choose 200MB for my personal needs - just to be safe in future.

Adding proxy_read_timeout is a good advice, thanks.

[JedMeister]

Ok thanks for that and thanks again for the initial notification. We'll aim to include a fix for this in the next release.

[JedMeister]

Closed by turnkeylinux-apps/mayan-edms@43d5174 - applaince will be rebuilt shortly with this and some other minor adjustments.