Error: 413 “Request Entity Too Large” in Nginx with “client_max_body_size” / Changes in Nginx config file.

This is happening because your nginx server does not allow you to upload a file that is larger than the defined size in nginx config file. To solve it, you have to modify your nginx configuration.

Follow the step to remove/modify your nginx config file.

Step 1: Connect to your nginx server with your terminal.

Ex: ssh -i pemFile.pem username@11.108.349.88 -v

Step 2: Go to the config location and open it

sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Step 3: Search for this variable: client_max_body_size. If you find it, just increase its size to 100M,
If it doesn’t exist, then you can add the below code inside and at the end of HTTP:

client_max_body_size 100M;

Step 4: Save this file. ( If you want to save the changes you’ve made, press Control + O . To exit nano, type Control + X . If you ask nano to exit from a modified file, it will ask you if you want to save it.)

Step 5: Restart nginx to apply the changes.

sudo service nginx restart

DONE