Are you saying that you do not have administrative control of your system?

Jonathan is right - set policies that disallow large file sizes and enforce
them.

If necessary use chron to check for large files and remove them.


On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Calin Don <calin.don@gmail.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately the way big files are getting there is beyond my control.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Jonathan Matthews <contact@jpluscplusm.com
> > wrote:
>
>> On 6 March 2013 13:28, Calin Don <calin.don@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Is there a way to server files only below a certain size?
>> > eg. Return 403 on files bigger than 5MB?
>>
>> Assuming you're talking about local filesystem files, you might try to
>> proxy_pass back round to yourself, and do an if() based on
>> $upstream_http_content_length.
>>
>> If you're already proxy'ing, you could use the same technique but
>> without the double nginx hit.
>>
>> I'd personally look at /how/ too-large files are getting onto disk,
>> and fix that, however.
>>
>> Jonathan
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