File synchronization with ownCloud using Nginx on Debian
Par Yves le lundi 6 avril 2015, 18:48 - Lien permanent
ownCloud is great! I chose it with the aim of sharing contacts and calendars with my server more reliably, and it is working perfectly.
After having used ownCloud for some time, I got interested in its file synchronization feature. Unfortunately, even though I heeded all the advice given in the documentation, I could not get any file bigger than 1MB to synchronize. Since I had no real use for this feature (I use NFS and SSHFS), I just moved on… until today.
Today, I wanted to synchronize my Minetest worlds between two computers. I did not want that the data reside on the server only; I needed local, synchronized, storage. But one just-generated Minetest world is already about 1.5MB.
Having searched the Internet a bit, it occurred to me that the solution to my problem is really simple, just well hidden.
The Nginx documentation says that the client_max_body_size parameter is allowed for all contexts, in particular for the location context, as it was used in my configuration. But I guess the version of Nginx in Debian stable is too old; anyway, this directive is just ignored.
In order to have a fully working synchronization of files by ownCloud, it was enough to create a file named /etc/nginx/conf.d/clientmaxbodysize.conf with this contents:
client_max_body_size 10000m;
This amounts to putting this line in the http context. It worked.