apache/nginx html file size limit

When serving/sending HTML files to a users browser, where can I reconfigure this size limit?

I want to send an extremely large html files to users via apache and nginx.

Files are being truncated in apache/nginx, what setting determines the file size?

Solution 1:

I've managed to download a 1GB HTML file from nginx 0.8.28 without any problems. Are you using gzip compression? You may need to set appropriate gzip_buffers size or even disable it at all, if the HTML files are so big.

Solution 2:

in nginx, add the following line to your nginx.conf file:

client_max_body_size 2G;

for a 2gb file limit.

Larger than that, and you might run into other issues (ie, like your local filesystem having problems with big files, memory spikes for processing, etc).

Check this post for further comparisons and problems with large files.