How to Increase Tomcat Upload File Size Limit

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    Today while deploying a war file (development site code) in Tomcat 8, I faced the following issue regarding upload limit size in Apache Tomcat server. So I decided to increase limit Tomcat upload file size limit to higher than the default. The default upload limit is set to 50 MB.

    Caused by: org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.FileUploadBase$SizeLimitExceededException the request was rejected because its size (128382112) exceeds the configured maximum (104828800)

    Increasing Upload Size Limit

    You can increase the Tomcat server upload file size limit by the editing webapps/manager/WEB-INF/web.xml configuration file and searching for the below content.

    cd /path/to/tomcat
vim webapps/manager/WEB-INF/web.xml

    <multipart-config>
   <max-file-size>52428800</max-file-size>
   <max-request-size>52428800</max-request-size>
   <file-size-threshold>0</file-size-threshold>
</multipart-config>

    Also, see the below screenshot.

    Increase tomcat upload file size limit

    Edit max-file-size and max-request-size and increase it as your requirement. These values are defined in bytes and the default value is set to 50 MB. You can set the following value for-

    • 100 MB => 104857600
    • 200 MB => 209715200

    Save the file and restart the Tomcat server to reload the changed settings.

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    1. Satya Prakash on

      Here iam not able 2 see any manager folder in webapps? I need to increase the limit size fro 50mb to 100mb.
      Kindly help

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    2. Navin on

      how can i alter when i run in STS..spring boot application?

      I get below log
      org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.FileUploadBase$SizeLimitExceededException: the request was rejected because its size (74373986) exceeds the configured maximum (10485760)
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.FileUploadBase$FileItemIteratorImpl.(FileUploadBase.java:808) ~[tomcat-embed-core-9.0.16.jar:9.0.16]
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.FileUploadBase.getItemIterator(FileUploadBase.java:256) ~[tomcat-embed-core-9.0.16.jar:9.0.16]
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.FileUploadBase.parseRequest(FileUploadBase.java:280) ~[tomcat-embed-core-9.0.16.jar:9.0.16]
      at org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.parseParts(Request.java:2846) ~[tomcat-embed-core-9.0.16.jar:9.0.16]
      at org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.getParts(Request.java:2754) ~[tomcat-embed-core-9.0.16.jar:9.0.16]

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    3. Yo on

      Hi ,

      your sample code as below

      52428800
      52428800
      0<

      you have one more “<" in the tag of file-size-threshold

      thanks for your sharing.

      Reply

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