I’ve finished setting up the LNMP stack on my VPS, and got WordPress running on it.<\/p>\n
I will be sharing the steps I’ve done to setup the LNMP stack on a later date, but first, I’d like share an issue I’ve encountered after getting WordPress up and running.<\/p>\n
After running the install.php script and doing up the settings of my WordPress site, I tried to upload a free theme pack from WooThemes<\/a>. (Typebased<\/a>, if you are wondering which one)<\/p>\n The first problem I hit was the server giving me a “Connection Reset” everytime I tried to upload the theme. In the Nginx error log, this was recorded:<\/p>\n The “client intended to send too large body” tells us that Nginx was rejecting the theme zip file as it was too big (it’s 2.49MB in size). A check on the Nginx Wiki shows that the default maximum size accepted by Nginx is 1MB<\/a>, and Nginx resets the connection whenever a browser tries to send or request a file greater than 1MB. So we’ll have to update the nginx.conf file with the “client_max_body_size” directive to get Nginx to send and receive a bigger file. I’ve changed mine to a value of 3MB and you may adjust yours accordingly. Note that the directive is placed in the “http” section.<\/p>\n I tried to upload the theme file again, and this time the file was accepted by Nginx without a problem. However, WordPress threw an error, “The uploaded file could not be move to …\/wp-content\/uploads.” Not a very intuitive error, seems like it is a permission issue with WordPress trying to write to the uploads directory… The logs weren’t showing any error and a Google search resulted in quite a few people having the same problem.<\/p>\n Most of the resolution are to do with setting the correct permission for the uploads directory. A check with my uploads directory shows that the permissions are correct \u00a0and I even tried to give full 777 permission to the directory! But error still persist… It took me quite a while, trying to figure out what’s wrong and then it suddenly hit me! It could be related to the Nginx size error, but at the PHP layer. A quick Google shows that PHP has a “upload_max_filesize” and “post_max_size” directive, so I updated my php.ini to include the two directives:<\/p>\n Bingo! \u00a0The theme file went through and was installed in WordPress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve finished setting up the LNMP stack on my VPS, and got WordPress running on it. I will be sharing the steps I’ve done to setup the LNMP stack on a later date, but first, I’d like share an issue… Continue Reading \n2011\/09\/24 07:34:58 [error] 30097#0: *70 client intended to send too large body: 2617076 bytes, client: 202.156.8.11, server: www.brainfart.sg, request: "POST \/wp-admin\/update.php?action=upload-theme HTTP\/1.1", host: "www.brainfart.sg", referrer: "http:\/\/www.brainfart.sg\/wp-admin\/theme-install.php?tab=upload"\n<\/pre>\n
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