Introduction

Some php based websites require more than the default of 2 MB of upload filesize. To increase this value you have to update the php5-fpm and Nginx configuration.

Requirements

• Ubuntu server
• Nginx
• php5-fpm
• Nginx minimal website
• Nginx php5-fpm website

Instruction

First update the php5-fpm config.

sudo vi /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini
Set upload_max_filesize = 10M
Set post_max_size = 10M

Restart the php5-fpm service.

sudo service php5-fpm restart

Add this Nginx configuration to your website config.

server{

  ...

  # change upload max size
  client_max_body_size 10M;

  ... 
}

Test config and reload Nginx service.

sudo nginx -t && sudo service nginx reload