How to Fix the 413 Request Entity Too Large Error in nginx-proxy
Overview I installed Docker on EC2 and used nginx-proxy and nginx-proxy-lets-encrypt to set up SSL. Everything was working fine with the above configuration, but when I created an app that POSTs relatively large files, the following error occurred and the upload failed. nginx-proxy 413 (Payload Too Large) I needed to increase Nginx’s client_max_body_size. Solution ChatGPT4 taught me the following solution, which resolved the issue. The 413 Request Entity Too Large error occurs when the payload of a request that the client is trying to send to the server (i.e., the size of the file being uploaded) exceeds the limit set on the server. To resolve this error, you need to increase the maximum request size in the Nginx configuration. ...