413 entity too large, nginx nodejs on elastic beanstalk

Question

Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk, node: 12.13.1.

I am making put/post requests with images bigger than 1mb, and edited config files different ways to accept 10m files.

No matter the solution I tried, the server keeps rejecting requests with the same 413 error message.

I've tried:

• Creating a config file in a platform folder
• adding the conf file in ebextensions folder,
• Every solution in this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18908426/increasing-client-max-body-size-in-nginx-conf-on-aws-elastic-beanstalk
• Directly SSH into the nginx server, and modify the config file, save and exit; but once the server restarts, the edit would be gone, and 413 would pop out again on each request.

I would appreciate anyone with a working alternative. Thank you

Answer 1

I fixed the issue, Some files starting with "." are hidden and have to be brought up with command + shift + "." . Once the platform file is visible in the folder, and uploaded, it will work and increase the limit.