# File upload time-out?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-upload-time-out/157014>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 6, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-upload-time-out/157014 "2009-01-06T14:39:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![r-a-mueller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@r-a-mueller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/r-a-mueller)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-upload-time-out/157014/1 "2009-01-06T14:39:27Z")

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I have an app that uploads large mp3 files (teaching), of around 30  
megs or so. I am running my app on a mongrel cluster behind nginx. The  
file uplaods seem to hang.

Is there a max execution time setting in rails, mongrel or nginx that  
is causing this?

Thanks

Richard

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**Author:** ![r-a-mueller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@r-a-mueller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/r-a-mueller)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-upload-time-out/157014/2 "2009-02-10T00:53:42Z")

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checkout  
[http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpCoreModule#client\_max\_body\_size](http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpCoreModule#client_max_body_size)