# Client max body size

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [February 17, 2022, 10:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/client-max-body-size/218536 "2022-02-17T10:34:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 10:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/client-max-body-size/218536/1 "2022-02-17T10:34:47Z")

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My discourse docker builds but won’t run nginx due to this error:

> nginx: [emerg] “client\_max\_body\_size” directive invalid value in /etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf

How do we solve this? Where is that nginx parameter specified in app.yml? [self hosted]

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