Increase file upload size in Laravel on Nginx server

when trying to upload a file with size more than xx MB the other day, I got an Http Error

So let’s check : the error log.

$ sudo nano /var/log/nginx/error.log

Which said this:

client intended to send too large body

after a few minutes of googling, it turned out that I could move the client_max_body_size “setting” from the location block to the server block in the Nginx vhost file.

From this:

# /etc/nginx/sites-avaliable/myweb.com
server {
  listen 80;
  listen [::]:80;
  root /var/www/myweb;
  index index.php index.html index.htm;
  server name myweb.com www.myweb.com;
  location / {
    client_max_body_size 128m;
    # …
  }
  # …
}

To this:

# /etc/nginx/sites-avaliable/myweb.com
server {
  listen 80;
  listen [::]:80;
  root /var/www/myweb;
  index index.php index.html index.htm;
  server name myweb.com www.myweb.com;
  client_max_body_size 128m;
  location / {
    # ...
  }
  # ...
}

after that

sudo service nginx reload

php.ini

In case you’re wondering, these are the things you have to change in the php.ini file.

First, locate the correct php.ini file by running phpinfo(); Look at the Loaded configuration file column. It will say something like this: etc/php/8.2/fpm/php.ini

Run:

$ sudo nano /etc/php/8.2/fpm/php.ini

Locate and change these settings:

post_max_size = 128M
upload_max_filesize = 128M

Save and exit.

Finish by restarting PHP-FPM:

$ sudo service php8.2-fpm restart

Thanks!