client intended to send too large body

[Daniel123]

Hello,

I have been using Plesk for a while on my server, but this is the first time that I need to set up large files uploading for a client who requires to upload via a form files that are larger than 128MB (but less than 400).

The issue I've been seeing is that whenever the user tries to upload a file greater than 128MB I see an error on the proxy_error_log that says:

2015/05/10 21:46:18 [error] 31224#0: *9 client intended to send too large body: 175420278 bytes, client: XX.XX.XX.XX, server: myserver.com , request: "POST /admin/products/1 HTTP/1.1", host: "myserver.com", referrer: "referrer"

I've been googling this issue and everything points to the nginx configuration (PHP parameters have already been set up). I proceeded to change the configuration of /etc/nginx/nginx.conf to include

http {
...
client_max_body_size 400M;
...
}

HOWEVER (and this is where I'm stuck) after restarting the nginx service, the fille /etc/nginx/plesk.conf.d/vhosts/myserver.com.conf continues to hold the value:

server {
...
client_max_body_size 128m;
...
}

Modifying this file to change the 128m to 400m does not make a difference.

Any thoughts or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

 

[UFHH01]

Hi Daniel123,

please keep in mind, that additional nginx settings are done over the Plesk Control Panel at your domain specific webserver settings "Additional nginx directives" ( Websites & Domains > YOUR - Domainname > Web Server Settings ) and will result in entries at "/var/www/vhosts/system/YOUR_DOMAIN.COM/conf/vhost_nginx.conf".


If you experience issues, while adding additional nginx settings, as for example:

Invalid nginx configuration: nginx: [emerg] "client_max_body_size" directive is duplicate

... please visit the Parallels/Odin Knowledge Base :

Invalid nginx configuration: nginx: [emerg] "client_max_body_size" directive is duplicate ( KB - article 122 689 )​

 

[Daniel123]

Thank you for the reference.

However, there's no panel.ini anywhere in my server, just a panel.ini.sample

Thoughts?

 

[UFHH01]

Hi Daniel123,

the SAMPLE might be copied to "/usr/local/psa/admin/conf/panel.ini" in order to work with the desired configurations.

 

[Daniel123]

Ok, so I already did that, followed the instructions as suggested.

Restarted the nginx service, but when trying to add the client_max_body_size directive, I keep getting the same error:

Invalid nginx configuration: nginx: [emerg] "client_max_body_size" directive is duplicate in /var/www/vhosts/system/myserver.com/conf/vhost_nginx.conf:2 nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed

I can confirm the new panel.ini seems to be working, because the value of client_max_body_size in /etc/nginx/plesk.conf.d/vhosts/myserver.com.conf is the same as in panel.ini

 

[UFHH01]

Hi Daniel123,

when you used "/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/httpdmng --reconfigure-all" to reconfigure your configuration files, your additional definitions from your "panel.ini" will conflict with additional settings at "/var/www/vhosts/system/YOUR_DOMAIN.COM/conf/vhost_nginx.conf", as you can see in your error message - you should use either one or the other method as described earlier to avoid double entries.

 

[Daniel123]

Removed any client_max_body_size entries from /etc/nginx/plesk.conf.d/vhosts/myserver.com.conf, restarted nginx and tried uploading a large file again. However the problem points now to a different component.

From error_log:

[Tue May 12 13:23:51 2015] [warn] [client 142.46.224.10] mod_fcgid: HTTP request length 134223089 (so far) exceeds MaxRequestLen (134217728), referer:

Looks like fcgid still needed to be configured. So I took a similar approach as before, and added the directive FcgidMaxRequestLen 400000000 as an additional directive for HTTP. Saved, restarted Apache and everything works now.