How to avoid nginx "upstream sent too big header" errors?

ruby-on-rails nginx passenger
netflux picture netflux · Feb 21, 2010 · Viewed 23.7k times · Source

I'm running nginx, Phusion Passenger and Rails.

I am running up against the following error:

upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstream, client: 87.194.2.18, server: xyz.com, request: "POST /user_session HTTP/1.1", upstream: "passenger://unix:/tmp/passenger.3322/master/helper_server.sock

It is occuring on the callback from an authentication call to Facebook Connect.

After googling, and trying to change nginx settings including proxy_buffer_size and large_client_header_buffers is having no effect.

How can I debug this?

Answer

Rob Di Marco picture Rob Di Marco · Sep 26, 2011

Came across this error recently.

Since Passenger 3.0.8 there is now a setting that allows you to set the buffers and buffer size. So now you can do 

http {
    ...
    passenger_buffers 8 16k;
    passenger_buffer_size 32k;
}

That resolved the issue for me.

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