Increase upload max size in Nextcloud

zjuhasz

I'm getting an error when I try to upload large files (it won't tell me which file is failing so I'm not exactly sure how large) to Nextcloud. I think it has something to do with a general php setting (php.ini) and not something set in Nextcloud itself but I have no experience with php so I'm not sure.

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I think if I can get the associated attribute here "Upload max size" to increase it will solve my problem but I don't know how to set it. This is under settings -> administration -> system

nebulon

You can edit the htaccess file using the file manager into the app or the /app/data/htaccess file when using the webterminal and add

php_value upload_max_filesize 10G

to the <IfModule mod_php7.c> section (adjust the 10G to whatever works for your case)

Then just refresh the browser and you should see the value updated.

zjuhasz

I think that worked, thanks. By the way, unrelated issue but it looks like the file browser is having trouble. When I go to file manager in Nextcloud config it says "Cloudron error file not found". This apps data was moved to a different disk on the system from the install disk so that might have something to do with it.

Anyway I added the setting you said using the console and it seems to be working.

nebulon

Indeed that is a known bug and you can track that at https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/issues/722
We will fix this hopefully for version 5.5

girish

This is fixed in 5.5. Should be out late this week or early next week.

rcdncn

@nebulon I just tried this myself and when I refreshed the browser the the php value did not update. I don't have to restart any services for this to take effect?

rcdncn

@rcdncn

An update. I goofed and it's working now. My first try I navigated to app/data/.htaccess and there was no

<IfModule mod_php7.c>

I noticed that there is both and htaccess and a .htaccess and I was in the incorrect file.

SolarSimon

Hi there,
I followed this discription:

@nebulon said in Increase upload max size in Nextcloud:

You can edit the htaccess file using the file manager into the app or the /app/data/htaccess file when using the webterminal and add

php_value upload_max_filesize 10G

to the <IfModule mod_php7.c> section (adjust the 10G to whatever works for your case)

Then just refresh the browser and you should see the value updated.

Is this still the correct and up-to-date method in the current Cloudron Nextcloud app?
Or has anything changed with newer PHP or app versions?

I also tried the instructions from the official documentation:
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/configuration_files/big_file_upload_configuration.html

Nextcloud comes with its own nextcloud/.htaccess file. Because php-fpm can’t read PHP settings in .htaccess these settings must be set in the nextcloud/.user.ini file.

Does this also apply to Nextcloud on Cloudron?
If so, where is the .user.ini file located within the Cloudron setup?

Thanks!

james

Hello @SolarSimon

Yes you can still use the described method with editing the /app/data/htaccess file.
Example excerpt from the /app/data/htaccess file limiting the upload to 1 KB:

<IfModule mod_php.c>
  php_value default_charset 'UTF-8'
  php_value output_buffering 0
  php_value upload_max_filesize 1K
  <IfModule mod_env.c>
    SetEnv htaccessWorking true
  </IfModule>
</IfModule>

This can then also be checked in https://$YOUR-DOMAIN/settings/admin/serverinfo:

SolarSimon

Hmm, that’s strange. I modified the .htaccess file as described, but the upload limit is still capped at 512 MB. I also restarted the app/server after making the changes. Any idea what else I might be missing?
My htaccess:

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
  <IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
    <IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
       SetEnvIfNoCase ^Authorization$ "(.+)" XAUTHORIZATION=$1
       RequestHeader set XAuthorization %{XAUTHORIZATION}e env=XAUTHORIZATION
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_proxy_fcgi.c>
       SetEnvIfNoCase Authorization "(.+)" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_lsapi.c>
      SetEnvIfNoCase ^Authorization$ "(.+)" XAUTHORIZATION=$1
      RequestHeader set XAuthorization %{XAUTHORIZATION}e env=XAUTHORIZATION
    </IfModule>
  </IfModule>

  <IfModule mod_env.c>
    # Add security and privacy related headers
    # Avoid doubled headers by unsetting headers in "onsuccess" table,
    # then add headers to "always" table: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/19002
    php_value upload_max_filesize 10G
    php_value post_max_size 10G
    php_value max_input_time 3600
    php_value max_execution_time 3600

    <If "%{REQUEST_URI} =~ m#/login$#">
      # Only on the login page we need any Origin or Referer header set.
      Header onsuccess unset Referrer-Policy
      Header always set Referrer-Policy "same-origin"
    </If>
    <Else>
      Header onsuccess unset Referrer-Policy
      Header always set Referrer-Policy "no-referrer"
    </Else>

    Header onsuccess unset X-Content-Type-Options
    Header always set X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"

    Header onsuccess unset X-Frame-Options
    Header always set X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN"

    Header onsuccess unset X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies
    Header always set X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies "none"

    Header onsuccess unset X-Robots-Tag
    Header always set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow"

    Header onsuccess unset X-XSS-Protection
    Header always set X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block"

    SetEnv modHeadersAvailable true
  </IfModule>

james

Hello @SolarSimon
What .htaccess file did you modify? It should be /app/data/htaccess.
And the default /app/data/htaccess looks completely different to what you have posted. Did you only post a chunk of that file?
Here is the /app/data/htaccess file from a fresh installed Nextcloud app:

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
  <IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
    <IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
       SetEnvIfNoCase ^Authorization$ "(.+)" XAUTHORIZATION=$1
       RequestHeader set XAuthorization %{XAUTHORIZATION}e env=XAUTHORIZATION
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_proxy_fcgi.c>
       SetEnvIfNoCase Authorization "(.+)" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_lsapi.c>
      SetEnvIfNoCase ^Authorization$ "(.+)" XAUTHORIZATION=$1
      RequestHeader set XAuthorization %{XAUTHORIZATION}e env=XAUTHORIZATION
    </IfModule>
  </IfModule>

  <IfModule mod_env.c>
    # Add security and privacy related headers
    # Avoid doubled headers by unsetting headers in "onsuccess" table,
    # then add headers to "always" table: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/19002

    <If "%{REQUEST_URI} =~ m#/login$#">
      # Only on the login page we need any Origin or Referer header set.
      Header onsuccess unset Referrer-Policy
      Header always set Referrer-Policy "same-origin"
    </If>
    <Else>
      Header onsuccess unset Referrer-Policy
      Header always set Referrer-Policy "no-referrer"
    </Else>

    Header onsuccess unset X-Content-Type-Options
    Header always set X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"

    Header onsuccess unset X-Frame-Options
    Header always set X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN"

    Header onsuccess unset X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies
    Header always set X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies "none"

    Header onsuccess unset X-Robots-Tag
    Header always set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow"

    SetEnv modHeadersAvailable true
  </IfModule>

  # Add cache control for static resources
  <FilesMatch "\.(css|js|mjs|svg|gif|png|jpg|webp|ico|wasm|tflite)$">
    <If "%{QUERY_STRING} =~ /(^|&)v=/">
      Header set Cache-Control "max-age=15778463, immutable"
    </If>
    <Else>
      Header set Cache-Control "max-age=15778463"
    </Else>
  </FilesMatch>

  # Let browsers cache OTF and WOFF files for a week
  <FilesMatch "\.(otf|woff2?)$">
    Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800"
  </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_php.c>
  php_value default_charset 'UTF-8'
  php_value output_buffering 0
  <IfModule mod_env.c>
    SetEnv htaccessWorking true
  </IfModule>
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_mime.c>
  AddType image/svg+xml svg svgz
  AddType application/wasm wasm
  AddEncoding gzip svgz
  # Serve ESM javascript files (.mjs) with correct mime type
  AddType text/javascript js mjs
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
  DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</IfModule>

<IfModule pagespeed_module>
  ModPagespeed Off
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} DavClnt
  RewriteRule ^$ /remote.php/webdav/ [L,R=302]
  RewriteRule .* - [env=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
  RewriteRule ^\.well-known/carddav https://%{HTTP_HOST}/remote.php/dav/ [R=301,L]
  RewriteRule ^\.well-known/caldav https://%{HTTP_HOST}/remote.php/dav/ [R=301,L]
  RewriteRule ^remote/(.*) remote.php [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^(?:build|tests|config|lib|3rdparty|templates)/.* - [R=404,L]
  RewriteRule ^\.well-known/(?!acme-challenge|pki-validation) /index.php [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^ocm-provider/?$ index.php [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^(?:\.(?!well-known)|autotest|occ|issue|indie|db_|console).* - [R=404,L]
</IfModule>

# Clients like xDavv5 on Android, or Cyberduck, use chunked requests.
# When FastCGI or FPM is used with apache, requests arrive to Nextcloud without any content.
# This leads to the creation of empty files.
# The following directive will force the problematic requests to be buffered before being forwarded to Nextcloud.
# This way, the "Transfer-Encoding" header is removed, the "Content-Length" header is set, and the request content is proxied to Nextcloud.
# Here are more information about the issue:
#  - https://docs.cyberduck.io/mountainduck/issues/fastcgi/
#  - https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/issues/general_troubleshooting.html#troubleshooting-webdav
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
  SetEnvIfNoCase Transfer-Encoding "chunked" proxy-sendcl=1
</IfModule>

# Apache disabled the sending of the server-side content-length header
# in their 2.4.59 patch updated which breaks some use-cases in Nextcloud.
# Setting ap_trust_cgilike_cl allows to bring back the usual behaviour.
# See https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68973
<IfModule mod_env.c>
  SetEnv ap_trust_cgilike_cl
</IfModule>

AddDefaultCharset utf-8
Options -Indexes
#### DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ABOVE THIS LINE ####

ErrorDocument 403 /index.php/error/403
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php/error/404
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  Options -MultiViews
  RewriteRule ^core/js/oc.js$ index.php [PT,E=PATH_INFO:$1]
  RewriteRule ^core/preview.png$ index.php [PT,E=PATH_INFO:$1]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(css|js|mjs|svg|gif|ico|jpg|jpeg|png|webp|html|otf|ttf|woff2?|map|webm|mp4|mp3|ogg|wav|flac|wasm|tflite)$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/core/ajax/update\.php
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/core/img/(favicon\.ico|manifest\.json)$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(cron|public|remote|status)\.php
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/ocs/v(1|2)\.php
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/robots\.txt
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(ocs-provider|updater)/
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/(acme-challenge|pki-validation)/.*
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/richdocumentscode(_arm64)?/proxy.php$
  RewriteRule . index.php [PT,E=PATH_INFO:$1]
  RewriteBase /
  <IfModule mod_env.c>
    SetEnv front_controller_active true
    <IfModule mod_dir.c>
      DirectorySlash off
    </IfModule>
  </IfModule>
</IfModule>

With assuming, you only posted a chunk, I can see that you have added:

    php_value upload_max_filesize 10G
    php_value post_max_size 10G
    php_value max_input_time 3600
    php_value max_execution_time 3600

in the wrong section in the /app/data/htaccess file.

It should be like this:

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
  <IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
    <IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
       SetEnvIfNoCase ^Authorization$ "(.+)" XAUTHORIZATION=$1
       RequestHeader set XAuthorization %{XAUTHORIZATION}e env=XAUTHORIZATION
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_proxy_fcgi.c>
       SetEnvIfNoCase Authorization "(.+)" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_lsapi.c>
      SetEnvIfNoCase ^Authorization$ "(.+)" XAUTHORIZATION=$1
      RequestHeader set XAuthorization %{XAUTHORIZATION}e env=XAUTHORIZATION
    </IfModule>
  </IfModule>

  <IfModule mod_env.c>
    # Add security and privacy related headers
    # Avoid doubled headers by unsetting headers in "onsuccess" table,
    # then add headers to "always" table: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/19002

    <If "%{REQUEST_URI} =~ m#/login$#">
      # Only on the login page we need any Origin or Referer header set.
      Header onsuccess unset Referrer-Policy
      Header always set Referrer-Policy "same-origin"
    </If>
    <Else>
      Header onsuccess unset Referrer-Policy
      Header always set Referrer-Policy "no-referrer"
    </Else>

    Header onsuccess unset X-Content-Type-Options
    Header always set X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"

    Header onsuccess unset X-Frame-Options
    Header always set X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN"

    Header onsuccess unset X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies
    Header always set X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies "none"

    Header onsuccess unset X-Robots-Tag
    Header always set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow"

    SetEnv modHeadersAvailable true
  </IfModule>

  # Add cache control for static resources
  <FilesMatch "\.(css|js|mjs|svg|gif|png|jpg|webp|ico|wasm|tflite)$">
    <If "%{QUERY_STRING} =~ /(^|&)v=/">
      Header set Cache-Control "max-age=15778463, immutable"
    </If>
    <Else>
      Header set Cache-Control "max-age=15778463"
    </Else>
  </FilesMatch>

  # Let browsers cache OTF and WOFF files for a week
  <FilesMatch "\.(otf|woff2?)$">
    Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800"
  </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_php.c>
  php_value default_charset 'UTF-8'
  php_value output_buffering 0
  php_value upload_max_filesize 10G
  php_value post_max_size 10G
  php_value max_input_time 3600
  php_value max_execution_time 3600
  <IfModule mod_env.c>
    SetEnv htaccessWorking true
  </IfModule>
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_mime.c>
  AddType image/svg+xml svg svgz
  AddType application/wasm wasm
  AddEncoding gzip svgz
  # Serve ESM javascript files (.mjs) with correct mime type
  AddType text/javascript js mjs
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
  DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</IfModule>

<IfModule pagespeed_module>
  ModPagespeed Off
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} DavClnt
  RewriteRule ^$ /remote.php/webdav/ [L,R=302]
  RewriteRule .* - [env=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
  RewriteRule ^\.well-known/carddav https://%{HTTP_HOST}/remote.php/dav/ [R=301,L]
  RewriteRule ^\.well-known/caldav https://%{HTTP_HOST}/remote.php/dav/ [R=301,L]
  RewriteRule ^remote/(.*) remote.php [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^(?:build|tests|config|lib|3rdparty|templates)/.* - [R=404,L]
  RewriteRule ^\.well-known/(?!acme-challenge|pki-validation) /index.php [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^ocm-provider/?$ index.php [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^(?:\.(?!well-known)|autotest|occ|issue|indie|db_|console).* - [R=404,L]
</IfModule>

# Clients like xDavv5 on Android, or Cyberduck, use chunked requests.
# When FastCGI or FPM is used with apache, requests arrive to Nextcloud without any content.
# This leads to the creation of empty files.
# The following directive will force the problematic requests to be buffered before being forwarded to Nextcloud.
# This way, the "Transfer-Encoding" header is removed, the "Content-Length" header is set, and the request content is proxied to Nextcloud.
# Here are more information about the issue:
#  - https://docs.cyberduck.io/mountainduck/issues/fastcgi/
#  - https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/issues/general_troubleshooting.html#troubleshooting-webdav
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
  SetEnvIfNoCase Transfer-Encoding "chunked" proxy-sendcl=1
</IfModule>

# Apache disabled the sending of the server-side content-length header
# in their 2.4.59 patch updated which breaks some use-cases in Nextcloud.
# Setting ap_trust_cgilike_cl allows to bring back the usual behaviour.
# See https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68973
<IfModule mod_env.c>
  SetEnv ap_trust_cgilike_cl
</IfModule>

AddDefaultCharset utf-8
Options -Indexes
#### DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ABOVE THIS LINE ####

ErrorDocument 403 /index.php/error/403
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php/error/404
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  Options -MultiViews
  RewriteRule ^core/js/oc.js$ index.php [PT,E=PATH_INFO:$1]
  RewriteRule ^core/preview.png$ index.php [PT,E=PATH_INFO:$1]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(css|js|mjs|svg|gif|ico|jpg|jpeg|png|webp|html|otf|ttf|woff2?|map|webm|mp4|mp3|ogg|wav|flac|wasm|tflite)$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/core/ajax/update\.php
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/core/img/(favicon\.ico|manifest\.json)$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(cron|public|remote|status)\.php
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/ocs/v(1|2)\.php
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/robots\.txt
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(ocs-provider|updater)/
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/(acme-challenge|pki-validation)/.*
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/richdocumentscode(_arm64)?/proxy.php$
  RewriteRule . index.php [PT,E=PATH_INFO:$1]
  RewriteBase /
  <IfModule mod_env.c>
    SetEnv front_controller_active true
    <IfModule mod_dir.c>
      DirectorySlash off
    </IfModule>
  </IfModule>
</IfModule>

To make it more visual please see: https://www.diffchecker.com/3aKUL3fu/

Editorial note:
@SolarSimon I have restored you last post to keep the context intact for future readers.

SolarSimon

Thanks for the hint! I noticed the mistake and deleted my previous post—sorry about that.

But it’s still a bit strange. I see two htaccess files: one under /mnt/volumes/ and one under /home/yellowtent/appsdata/.

If I modify the htaccess under /mnt/volumes/, it has no effect.

If I modify the htaccess under /home/yellowtent/appsdata/, the changes are gone after an app restart—the entries disappear. I’m editing the file via terminal with nano.

My data directory is located at /media/storagebox.

Any clue?

james

Hello @SolarSimon
Please use the Web Terminal or the File Manager of your app to edit the htaccess file.

SolarSimon

This post is deleted!

joseph

@SolarSimon said in Increase upload max size in Nextcloud:

But it’s still a bit strange. I see two htaccess files: one under /mnt/volumes/ and one under /home/yellowtent/appsdata/.

Yes, confusing... There's two htaccess in nextcloud:

/app/data/htaccess - this one is for the nextcloud code (symlinked from /app/code/.htaccess) . nextcloud wants this writable since it patches this at runtime

/app/data/data/.htaccess - this is for the data directory (i.e user files of nextcloud) which is /app/data/data by default. Here's the confusing part: in old nextcloud packages, the data directory was /app/data (by mistake) . This meant that /app/data/.htaccess was present, and we ended up with 2 htaccess files one with a dot and one without it.

@james maybe something for the docs?

SolarSimon

Okay, so after some testing I still don’t know why the changes in htaccess disappear.
But on one server it works fine, and on the other it reports a 5 GB file size limit — no idea why.
At least normal uploads in the web interface now work.

However, all my previous tests failed because I was always testing with a shared link that has edit rights.
With that, I still get a 413 error and the following message:

BadRequest – Expected file size of 3099309687 bytes, but 0 bytes were read (from the Nextcloud client) and written (to the Nextcloud storage). This can be caused by a network issue on the sending side or a writing issue on the server side.

So it seems that the upload limit only works for regular logged-in uploads, but not for uploads via share links.

Any idea what might cause this difference? Guess this is a nextcloud issue.

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