# Sorry, that file is too big

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorry-that-file-is-too-big/108949
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 12, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorry-that-file-is-too-big/108949 "2019-02-12T13:12:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![savas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/savas/32/131277_2.png) [@savas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/savas)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorry-that-file-is-too-big/108949/1 "2019-02-12T13:13:00Z")

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![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/c/acbaff07f951b653b757a528700dab0474f1834b.png)  
trying to upload 78mb file and getting error that file to big but upload limit is 100mb +… enny solution ?

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 4:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorry-that-file-is-too-big/108949/2 "2019-02-13T04:06:33Z")

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Not really? Discourse isn’t designed or intended to be a giant file hosting service.

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 8:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorry-that-file-is-too-big/108949/3 "2019-02-13T08:24:27Z")

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If you really want to upload these large files on your Discourse, you need to make sure you NGINX configuration is also allowing uploads up to 100MB. By default, the limit is 10MB and changing the site setting alone isn’t enough.

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/641b079c78267de87a1e9e3641789bac1a388801/config/nginx.sample.conf#L64-L65>

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### Author: ![savas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/savas/32/131277_2.png) [@savas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/savas)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 9:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorry-that-file-is-too-big/108949/4 "2019-02-13T09:29:10Z")

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The problem that im using s3 so im not expekting to hold files in discourse just need to safe place to my files 😃

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### Author: ![savas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/savas/32/131277_2.png) [@savas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/savas)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 9:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorry-that-file-is-too-big/108949/5 "2019-02-13T09:31:27Z")

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Nice maby you now where to find that nginx conig file ?

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### Author: ![savas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/savas/32/131277_2.png) [@savas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/savas)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorry-that-file-is-too-big/108949/7 "2019-02-13T14:08:07Z")

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solved by adding to app.yml file this line

```
# replace 20m with desired value
upload_size: 200m

```

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorry-that-file-is-too-big/108949/8 "2019-03-15T14:08:08Z")

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