Increasing Max File Size in Discourse
A user (kyler) is trying to increase the max file upload size on their site but encountered issues after editing the config file. Another user (jfmgonzales) provided two methods to edit the discourse.conf file: by SSHing into Discourse or by copying and editing the file on the host server. After editing, nginx needs to be reloaded with docker exec discourse nginx -s reload.
However, jfmgonzales later updated that there’s a simpler way by adding upload_size: 5000M to the .yml configuration file. diogocsc asked how to find the IP of the Discourse container, but no direct answer was provided. sam pointed out that the solution is documented in the Meta Discourse tutorial.
Hey, I’m trying to increase the max file upload size on my site. I edited my config file per the instructions here:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-max-attachment-size/26435
I rebuilt the app and then my discourse went down. So I removed the lines and rebooted the server. Back up now, but still now sure on how to do this.
Can someone tell me exactly what file to edit? I had Discourse.org install my forum on a Digital Ocean droplet, so everything is standard. Thanks!
You can SSH into discourse while you’re SSH’ed into your Droplet. From there, you could nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf and edit the file directly.
Or I guess you could also copy the file from inside discourse to your host server,
$ scp discourseIP:/etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf ~/discourse.conf
edit the file, and then scp it back into the discourse container.
$ scp ~/discourse.conf discourseIP:/etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf
Either way, once you’ve edited the file, you would have to tell the contained instance of nginx to reload its configuration, like so:
$ docker exec discourse nginx -s reload
#Update
It turns out that there’s a parameter for it in the *.yml configuration. Just add upload_size: 5000M.
how do we know the ip of the discourse ?
This is all documented in this howto: