413 Request Entity Too Large

[Jorge]

nginx/1.10.2
mediagoblin 0.9.0

1. setup production environment using nginx and systemd
2. enable audio: ​https://mediagoblin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/siteadmin/media-types.html#audio

[plugins]
[[mediagoblin.plugins.geolocation]]
[[mediagoblin.plugins.basic_auth]]
[[mediagoblin.plugins.processing_info]]
[[mediagoblin.media_types.image]]
[[mediagoblin.media_types.video]]
[[mediagoblin.media_types.audio]]
[[mediagoblin.media_types.pdf]]

3. upload an audio file
4. see "413 Request Entity Too Large"

No further info in /var/log/nginx/mediagoblin.error.log and /var/log/mediagoblin/paster.log.

[Jorge]

Improve documentation: Increase client_max_body_size in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mediagoblin.conf for larger medea files.

[ayleph]

This is an error with the web server configuration, not with MediaGoblin itself. Accordingly, I'm going to mark this documentation patch as a trivial enhancement rather than a major defect. Not everyone uses nginx, so the proposed change to the documentation isn't applicable to all users. But it's a good start on a small change we could introduce to make deploying easier.

[Ben Sturmfels]

I've increased our Nginx default to 100m and significantly improved the docs on this, including explitly mentioning that error message:

​http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mediagoblin.git/commit/?id=5224d700dde21342535e0e79b3c521dd447aed21

Closing this as fixed!