nginx - client_max_body_size has no effect

Question

nginx keeps saying client intended to send too large body. Googling and RTM pointed me to client_max_body_size. I set it to 200m in th

Answer 1

Assuming you have already set the client_max_body_size and various PHP settings (upload_max_filesize / post_max_size , etc) in the other answers, then restarted or reloaded NGINX and PHP without any result, run this...

nginx -T

This will give you any unresolved errors in your NGINX configs. In my case, I struggled with the 413 error for a whole day before I realized there were some other unresolved SSL errors in the NGINX config (wrong pathing for certs) that needed to be corrected. Once I fixed the unresolved issues I got from 'nginx -T', reloaded NGINX, and EUREKA!! That fixed it.