Want to set Limit for maximum file upload size

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I want to set a upload file size in nextcloud web server which is rock linux, for that what are the configuration i need to do and what are the files that i need to configure, please give me an update regarding this.

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Hi @syed_asif
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You can setup it in php.ini

upload_max_filesize = 10M

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Why do you want to set this up? It often makes more sense to simply set a quota per user.

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it sets only storage limit to a user and what i want to do was to set a limit for uploading file size

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if i set upload_max_size = 1G
still more than 1G files are uploading even after restarting both services

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I’d say that’s because Nextcoud uses chunking, meaning it splits files into multiple smaller pieces when uploading, and if those pieces are smaller than the upload_max_filsize, uploading larger files will still work.

So I would go with @devnull’s suggestion and set a quota per user. Let the users decide for themselves whether they prefer to have a few large files in their account or many smaller ones.

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in my working env they need more storage, so i dont want to make quota and want max file upload for reducing the cpu usage

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And you can’t just tell your users not to upload larger files, or use it strictly for work releated stuff? I mean either they need certain files on Nextcloud for their work or not, but yeah I guess we don’t need to argue about your reasoning… :wink:

I can only say that in order to achieve what you want in a reliable way and without unwanted side effects, it would most likely have to be done in Nextcloud itself, not in PHP or in the web server. Unfortunately, as far as I know, such a feature/configuration option is not implemented in Nextcloud, and I do not know how easy it would be to do so.

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I did a bit of research…

You may be able to work around this problem by setting the chunksize in Nextcloud to the same or a higher value than the maximum file size you want to allow. The deafult is 100M: Configuration Parameters — Nextcloud latest Administration Manual latest documentation

However, I’m not sure this is a good idea, because if it works as I think it does, it would effectively disable chunking in your case, and with a maximum size of 1GB, which is still relatively large, the drawbacks may outweigh the benefits. Also, if you are uploading files over slow or unstable connections, such as mobile networks, a partial file upload cannot be resumed without chunking, and the entire file must be uploaded again.

I have not tested this, but the following may work:

In Nextcloud’s config.php:

'files.chunked_upload.max_size' => 1024 * 1024 * 1024,

In the php.ini or Nextcloud’s .user.ini:

upload_max_filesize = 1G
post_max_size = 1G
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I’ve been working with computers since Bill Gates said that nobody needs more than 640 KB. I still think 1 GB is very big. In my environment, that would hardly be a size limit.

As a little extra idea:
If you want to control employees better, maybe you can give employees a small quota. You could also define group folders / team folders that are limited in size. This quota are not belongs to the user quota.

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this is not the solution for my problem, what i asked was to set a upload limit for filesize, if you have any better idea regarding this, reply.

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Yes, but @devnull has a point imho. If I understand correctly, your main problem is CPU load. And I’m honestly not sure if limiting the file size to 1G is actually the right way to solve your problem.

And yes, file chunking increases CPU load slightly, but only for files larger than 100MB.

So either your users need to regularly uploading large files to do their job, in which case it may make sense to increase the chunk size to a higher value, e.g to 200MB if the majority of files are between 100-200MB.

Or, your users are uploading large files all day that have nothing to do with their job, in which case you would have a problem that can’t or shouldn’t be solved with technology… :wink:

Either way, the point is that one should typically equip and tune a server to best serve the use cases of its users, not limit the possible use cases to the limits of the server, which may end up costing more money than buying a more powerful server. Always assuming it is serving the work that your users need to do. :wink:

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This is not provided for in Nextcloud and is therefore done in phi.ini.