Software Snippets #1

Software Dev

Thought I'd use this blog to note down interesting bite-sized things I come across during dev that I may want to refer back to at some point.

While copy-pasting images for my previous post, I kept getting a "413 Content Too Large" error from nginx. Turns out the default max content size you can post is one megabyte. Fortunately, the solution is simple:

location /target/path {
    ...
    client_max_body_size 10M;
}

Obviously, replace the path and the property value with whatever you need.

Worth noting that this is one of those nginx properties that cannot take a variable as a value, so you cannot set up a map for it that returns different sizes based on URI.