Upload of files larger than 1 MB not working

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Hello!

I’m experiencing the following problem with a Seafile installation via Docker (Version 8.0.5) on a Debian 10 server with NginX as a reverse proxy:

When I try to upload a file larger than 1 MB via the web interface, the upload progress bar stops growing at a certain point and the upload rate drops to 0,00 B/s and stays there. From this point on, nothing more happens. When I reload the page, the upload progress bar does not appear again and I see that the file has not been uploaded.

With files smaller than 1 MB, the uploads work just fine.

I know that files are stored in 1 MB blocks by default, so maybe there is a problem with the mechanism which creates the blocks?

Is there a log file where I can look for logs regarding the block storage?

Can someone help me get it to work properly?

This is my docker-compose.yml:

version: ‘2.0’
services:
db:
image: mariadb
container_name: seafile-mysql
environment:
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=[my secret password which I won’t post here]
- MYSQL_LOG_CONSOLE=true
volumes:
- . / data / mariadb : / var / lib / mysql (without the spaces)
networks:
- seafile-net

memcached:
image: memcached
container_name: seafile-memcached
entrypoint: memcached -m 256
networks:
- seafile-net

seafile:
image: seafileltd/seafile-mc
container_name: seafile
ports:
- “8822:80”
volumes:
- ./data/app:/shared
environment:
- DB_HOST=db
- DB_ROOT_PASSWD=[secret password]
- TIME_ZONE=Europe/Berlin
- SEAFILE_ADMIN_EMAIL=[secret email address]
- SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=[secret password]
- SEAFILE_SERVER_LETSENCRYPT=false
- SEAFILE_SERVER_HOSTNAME=[secret hostname]
depends_on:
- db
- memcached
networks:
- seafile-net

networks:
seafile-net:

This is my seahub_settings.py:

-- coding: utf-8 --

SECRET_KEY = [some secret key]

DATABASES = {
‘default’: {
‘ENGINE’: ‘django.db.backends.mysql’,
‘NAME’: ‘seahub_db’,
‘USER’: ‘seafile’,
‘PASSWORD’: [secret password],
‘HOST’: ‘db’,
‘PORT’: ‘3306’
}
}

CACHES = {
‘default’: {
‘BACKEND’: ‘django_pylibmc.memcached.PyLibMCCache’,
‘LOCATION’: ‘memcached:11211’,
},
‘locmem’: {
‘BACKEND’: ‘django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache’,
},
}
COMPRESS_CACHE_BACKEND = ‘locmem’
TIME_ZONE = ‘Europe/Berlin’
FILE_SERVER_ROOT = [a secret URL]

This is my ccnet.conf:

[General]
SERVICE_URL = [secret URL]
[Database]
ENGINE = mysql
HOST = db
PORT = 3306
USER = seafile
PASSWD = [secret password]
DB = ccnet_db
CONNECTION_CHARSET = utf8

[Client]
UNIX_SOCKET = /opt/seafile/ccnet.sock

This is my NginX config file for Seafile:

server {
server_name [secret server name];
location / {
proxy_pass http : // localhost : 8822; (without the spaces)
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
}

listen [::]:443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/[my secret hostname]/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/[my secret hostname]/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot

}
server {
if ($host = [my secret hostname]) {
return 301 https : // $host $request_uri; (without the spaces)
} # managed by Certbot

server_name [my secret hostname];

listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}

This is my first post in any tech-related forum, so please let me know if any info is missing or if I did not follow best practice.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!

Clemens Holzapfel

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Nginx by default has this 1MB limit. You can change that limit by adding this line (here I set to 0 to remove the limit completely):
client_max_body_size 0;

That would go in the “location” block, so you could put it right under the “proxy_set_header” line, and then restart nginx.

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Yes!
This solved it. Thank you SO much!