upload issue when NGINX actes as reverse proxy

Weibin Yao nbubingo at gmail.com
Fri Feb 25 10:06:27 MSK 2011


Web George at 2011-2-25 14:36 wrote:
> Hi all:
>  
> I met an issue when I use NGINX.
>  
> When NGINX works as reverse proxy, I try to upload about 300M file to 
> the backend webserver, I failed.
>  
> 1) I change the entry "client_max_body_size 300m" in nginx.conf, but I 
> still fail.
What's the error.log show?
> 2) It seems that the file is cached by nginx,then re-transmit to backend.
>   If I want to upload 1GB size file and there is no enough memory in 
> reverse-server, it is fail also?
No, If there is not enough memory, Nginx will save it to a temporary 
file in the disk. After file uploading completed, Then it will send this 
static temporary file to backend.
>  
> 3) can we set bypass the file uploading ?
>  
> anyone can give me some help?
>  
> thanks
> George
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