client intended to send too large body EB Nginx

Question

I'm trying to increase the size of uploadable files to the server. However it seems there's a cap that prevents anything over 1MB of being uploaded.

I've read a lot of answers and none have worked for me.

I've done everything in this question Stackoverflow question

I did everything here as well. AWS resource

Here's what I have as the full error

2021/01/15 05:08:35 [error] 24140#0: *150 client intended to send too large body: 2695262 bytes, client: [ip-address-removed], server: , request: "PATCH /user HTTP/1.1", host: "host.domain.com", referrer: "host.domain.com"

I've made a file in this directory (which is at the root of my source code)

.ebextensions/nginx/conf.d/myconf.conf

In it I have

client_max_body_size 40M;

I know that EB is acknowledging it because if there's an error it won't deploy it. Other than that I have no idea what to do

Does anybody know what might be the issue here?

Edit: backend is nodejs v12

Edit: Also tried this inside of a .conf file in .ebextensions

files:
    "/etc/nginx/conf.d/myconf.conf":
        mode: "000755"
        owner: root
        group: root
        content: |
          client_max_body_size 20M;

What is your backend? It can affect the limit as well. For example php-fpm has this option in php.ini. — anemyte, Jan 15 '21 at 05:58
Wait a second... You put that nginx config in your source code, not in /etc/nginx, is that right? — anemyte, Jan 15 '21 at 06:07
Yes, it's inside of a folder called .ebextensions in my root folder. — Trevor Wood, Jan 15 '21 at 06:11

anemyte · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-15T07:35:30.230

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Update:

Beanstalk on Amazon Linux 2 AMI has a little different path for NGINX config extensions:

.platform/nginx/conf.d

There you can place NGINX config extension files with *.conf extension, for example:

.platform/nginx/conf.d/upload_size.conf:

client_max_body_size 20M;

Documentation for this is here.

Original answer:

Nginx normally does not read config from where is serves the content. By default all config nginx read is /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and this file includes other files from /etc/nginx/conf.d/ with *.conf extension.

You need to place client_max_body_size 40M; there.

edited Jan 15 '21 at 07:35

answered Jan 15 '21 at 06:17

anemyte

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thanks for the help but this isn't working for me either. It looks like EB sets default files from ebextensions. says it here (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/java-se-nginx.html) so i added this ```files: "/etc/nginx/conf.d/myconf.conf": mode: "000755" owner: root group: root content: | client_max_body_size 20M;``` and it's still not working – Trevor Wood Jan 15 '21 at 06:50
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@TrevorWood Oh I missed it is beanstalk. Try the following: from your source root create a file `.platform/nginx/conf.d/upload_size.conf` and put there a single line `client_max_body_size 20M;`. It's from https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/platforms-linux-extend.html – anemyte Jan 15 '21 at 07:06
thanks so much man. you're a lifesaver. Been stuck on this all day. You might add your answer to the link I posted in my question. Seems to get a lot of hits – Trevor Wood Jan 15 '21 at 07:22
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@TrevorWood glad to help and thanks for the feedback. I've updated the answer. – anemyte Jan 15 '21 at 07:35
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You are a saviour. AWS Beanstalk would have killed me otherwise – Nilan Saha Apr 19 '22 at 21:26
This was very helpful thanks !!!, changes from Amazon Linux 1 to 2 is not seamless – Rafael Larios May 18 '22 at 21:22

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