Getting 'Request Entity Too Large' after editing a Confluence page
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Summary
When users try to edit a page, it fails with error 'Request Entity Too Large' in their browsers
Environment
Confluence 7.4.
Diagnosis
Users receive a 'Request Entity Too Large' followed by "The requested resource does not allow request data with POST requests, or the amount of data provided in the requests exceeds the capacity limit" when editing a page.
The message in the browser will look like this:
Cause
The Tomcat connector maxPostSize is too small.
Solution
Please, increase maxPostSize value or add (if not present) maxPostSize parameter in your Tomcat connector to mitigate this issue:
- Shutdown Confluence
- Backup
/data/atlassian/confluence/conf/server.xml Edit
/data/atlassian/confluence/conf/server.xml
From:<Connector port="8090" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443" maxThreads="1500" minSpareThreads="10" enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0" URIEncoding="UTF-8" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol" proxyName="<YOUR_PROXY_NAME>" proxyPort="443" scheme="https" maxHttpHeaderSize="32768"To:
<Connector port="8090" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443" maxThreads="1500" maxPostSize="16777216" minSpareThreads="10" enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0" URIEncoding="UTF-8" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol" proxyName="<YOUR_PROXY_NAME>" proxyPort="443" scheme="https" maxHttpHeaderSize="32768"- Start Confluence