413 Request Entity Too Large
The HTTP 413 status code means a server refuses to process the request because the request body (also known as the request entity or payload) is too large.
The server may choose to close the connection to prevent the client from completing the request. However, if the condition is temporary (for example, a data upload quota for an API service), the server should send the Retry-After
HTTP header, prompting the client to retry after a certain period.
Apache
You can impose a limit on the request body size by setting the LimitRequestBody
config in Apache. It defaults to 0
, meaning there are no restrictions on the request body size.
LimitRequestBody 1024000
It is worth mentioning that the limit is typically imposed by PHP. To increase the file upload and POST request size to 10 megabytes, for example, set the upload_max_filesize
and post_max_size
configs in the php.ini
file.
upload_max_filesize = 10M
post_max_size = 10M
Nginx
In Nginx, the request body size limit is governed by the client_max_body_size
config, which is set to 1M
(1 megabyte) by default. To increase the limit to 10 megabytes, for example, set the following line in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
file.
client_max_body_size 10M;
You can disable the file size checking altogether by setting client_max_body_size
to 0
, although you open yourself up to a DoS attack.