Self hosted grist upload size limit?

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Hi,
I’m new to grist and loving it.
I have a self hosted grist behind authentik and I’m wondering if anyone with this kind of setup has a limit on the file size you can upload to grist. I’m trying to upload a .grist file of just 2.5MB and it returns an error. However there are no problems when i upload the same file to my getgrist free free plan.
I apologize if this has been dealt with here before, I just couldnt find anything on this here.
Thank you in advance.

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Sorry that is happening - is there a specific error message? There are environment variables that can set limits like GRIST_MAX_UPLOAD_IMPORT_MB but doesn’t sound like that is the case here. Are you using a reverse proxy? Is it possible it has a default limit on the size of payloads it forwards?

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Thanks for your promt reply.
I actually have adjusted the GRIST_MAX_UPLOAD_IMPORT_MB variable with no luck.
However, Im using a reverse proxy. I’ll check if has default limit.
Will get back to you after looking into the reverse proxy

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Thank you so much. you were right. Apparently nginx allows just 1M of payload to be forwarded.
I just added this to the nginx.conf file

http {
    client_max_body_size 8M;

    //other lines...
}

and that was all.
Thank you once again.

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