File uploads and client_max_body_size in nginx + gunicorn + django

Question

I need to configure nginx + gunicorn to be able to upload files greater than the default max size in both servers.

My nginx .conf file looks like this:

server { # ... location / { proxy_pass_header Server; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; proxy_redirect off; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Scheme $scheme; proxy_connect_timeout 60; proxy_pass http://localhost:8000/; } } 

The idea is to allow requests of 20M for two locations:

• /admin/path/to/upload?param=value
• /installer/other/path/to/upload?param=value

I've tried to add location directives at the same level than the one I've pasted here (getting 404 errors) and also tried to add them inside the location / directive (getting 413 Entity Too Large errors).

My location directives look like these in their simplest form:

location /admin/path/to/upload/ { client_max_body_size 20M; } location /installer/other/path/to/upload/ { client_max_body_size 20M; } 

But they don't work (actually I tested lots of combinations and I'm desperate thinking about this.

Please, help If you can: What settings do I need to set to make this work?

Thank you so much!

Answer 1

This finally worked doing something like this:

location / { proxy_pass_header Server; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; proxy_redirect off; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Scheme $scheme; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Protocol ssl; proxy_connect_timeout 120; proxy_pass http://localhost:8000/; location /admin/path/to/upload { client_max_body_size 50m; proxy_pass http://localhost:8000/admin/path/to/upload; } } 

Answer 2

Sounds like it was almost working when you had the client_max_body_size in the non-root locations. Have you also set dav_methods PUT; in your nginx conf to enable PUT and DELETE requests?