Max Upload File Size

[aleisha1112]

I'm using Overleaf Toolkit and need to adjust the max upload file size. For more complicated documents where figures and include files are stored in directories for better organization, uploading a zip file is the most efficient way to get the project into overleaf, but the zip file for some projects is > 50 MB. I have seen steps where you can modify client_max_body_size in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf within the container, but when I bring the container back up, the changes aren't having any effect.

Here are the steps I am taking

1. Use bin/up -d to bring up overleaf
2. Get a shell into the container: bin/docker-compose exec sharelatex /bin/sh
3. Edit client_max_body_size in nginx.conf: vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
4. Exit the shell
5. docker commit sharelatex sharelatex/sharelatex:with-texlive-full (also using the commit to keep all tex packages)
6. bin/stop
7. Add docker-compose.override.yml to overleaf-toolkit/config with

version: '2.2'
services:

    sharelatex:
        image: sharelatex/sharelatex:with-texlive-full

9. bin/up -d
10. Get a shell into the container: bin/docker-compose exec sharelatex /bin/sh
11. View /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and I see that client_max_body_size is back to the original setting of 50m

I expected the change to be saved in the image. It did start back up with all of the tex packages so I know it's using the right image. Is there somewhere else that I should be making this change? Or is this not something I can customize?

It seems that if I am hosting overleaf on my own server, I should be able to have more control over settings like max file size and max number of files uploaded based on what I think my server can handle.

[aleisha1112]

Update: I did find that if I edit client_max_body_size in /etc/nginx/templates/nginx.conf.templates, do the docker commit and restart the container, nginx.conf has the updates. But I still am unable to upload larger files.

[kmbae]

I just leave a comment to share a method that I have found to increase the upload limit. After modifying the client_max_body_size in /etc/nginx/templates/nginx.conf.templates as you mentioned above; I edited /overleaf/services/web/config/settings.defaults.js as below: maxUploadSize: 50 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024, // 50 GB