# Can't Increase the Max File Size
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-increase-the-max-file-size/31839
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 6, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-increase-the-max-file-size/31839 "2015-08-06T18:29:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@kyler](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kyler)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-increase-the-max-file-size/31839/1 "2015-08-06T18:29:52Z")
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](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](http://Discourse.org) install my forum on a Digital Ocean droplet, so everything is standard. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@jfmgonzales](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jfmgonzales)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-increase-the-max-file-size/31839/2 "2015-08-06T20:33:10Z")
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`.
Source: [Change the maximum attachment/upload size](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-max-attachment-size/26435/2)
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### Author:  [@diogocsc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/diogocsc)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-increase-the-max-file-size/31839/3 "2018-07-20T22:07:25Z")
how do we know the ip of the discourse ?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 12:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-increase-the-max-file-size/31839/5 "2018-07-23T00:39:33Z")
This is all documented in this howto:
> [@Change the maximum attachment/upload size](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-max-attachment-size/26435):
>
> bookmark This guide explains how to change the maximum attachment upload size for self-hosted Discourse instances. person_raising_hand Required user level: System Admin The default attachment upload size limit is 10MB If you are self-hosting Discourse and need to allow uploads larger than 10 MB, follow the steps below. Changing the upload size Connect to your server: Use SSH to access your server’s command line interface. Edit the configuration file: Navigate to the configurati…
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 12:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-increase-the-max-file-size/31839/6 "2018-07-23T00:39:35Z")