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| author | Marcel Amirault <mamirault@gitlab.com> | 2019-08-13 16:14:53 +0900 |
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| committer | Marcel Amirault <mamirault@gitlab.com> | 2019-08-13 16:14:53 +0900 |
| commit | d8a7131de0db1e51a6515b09d7b81ddf076ebc70 (patch) | |
| tree | c189bfc08fb607fc8ade0249c82fc01573fbf86b | |
| parent | 2c9bf270d09f81b8c48fddda81197304e6c9e7e4 (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-docs-attachment-size.tar.gz | |
Tweak wording explaining 413 error messagedocs-attachment-size
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/user/admin_area/settings/account_and_limit_settings.md | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/user/admin_area/settings/account_and_limit_settings.md b/doc/user/admin_area/settings/account_and_limit_settings.md index a7eed1510a4..6faab685b26 100644 --- a/doc/user/admin_area/settings/account_and_limit_settings.md +++ b/doc/user/admin_area/settings/account_and_limit_settings.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ From here, you can increase or decrease by changing the value in `Maximum attach NOTE: **Note:** If you choose a size larger than what is currently configured for the web server, -you will get errors. See the [troubleshooting section](#troubleshooting) for more +you will likely get errors. See the [troubleshooting section](#troubleshooting) for more details. ## Repository size limit **(STARTER)** @@ -66,12 +66,13 @@ GitLab.com repository size [is set by GitLab](../../gitlab_com/index.md#reposito ### 413 Request Entity Too Large -The `413 Request Entity Too Large` error is caused by having a [max attachment size](#max-attachment-size) +If you are attaching a file to a comment or reply in GitLab and receive the `413 Request Entity Too Large` +error, it is likely caused by having a [max attachment size](#max-attachment-size) larger than what the web server is configured to allow. -For example, if you wanted to increase the max attachment size to 200m in a GitLab -[Omnibus](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/) install, you might need to add the line -below to `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb` before increasing the max attachment size: +If you wanted to increase the max attachment size to 200m in a GitLab +[Omnibus](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/) install, for example, you might need to +add the line below to `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb` before increasing the max attachment size: ``` nginx['client_max_body_size'] = "200m" |