Nginx for serving files bigger than 1GB

ealize that nginx was not serving files larger than 1GB. After investigation I found that it was due to the proxy_max_temp_file_size variable, that is configured by default to serve up to 1024 MB max.

This variable indicates the max size of a temporary file when the data served is bigger than the proxy buffer. If it is indeed bigger than the buffer, it will be served synchronously from the upstream server, avoiding the disk buffering.
If you configure proxy_max_temp_file_size to 0, then your temporary files will be disabled.

In this fix it was enough to locate this variable inside the location block, although you can use it inside server and httpd blocks. With this configuration you will optimize nginx for serving more than 1GB of data.

location / {
...
proxy_max_temp_file_size 1924m;
...
}

Restart nginx to take the changes:

service nginx restart