BUG: cannot attach pdf in Web

[pwalczysko]

On octopus, cannot attach .pdf file in Web (insight is fine).
Workflow:

• login as any user
• go to right hand pane and try to attach a .pdf file to a Project or Dataset or Image
• when Attachment dialog pops up, select Choose file
• have a ready .pdf document locally, browse to it, select and
• hit Accept in the dialog
• a message from the browser says Undefined - the action does not proceed - see screenshot

Note: Not browser-specific, because occurs in Safari and Firefox.
Note: Not name -specific, because occurs even with PDF files which were renamed to have suffix .txt -> attaching these files fails as well

[pwalczysko]

Additional info: when another type of PDF is used (the type created by OMERO.figure - the attachment action is performed just fine.
Workflow:

• create a .pdf using OMERO.figure on Nightshade
• download this .pdf locally
• login to octopus and try to attach this nightshade-OMERO.figure-created .pdf to a dataset on octopus
• action proceeds with no problem

Note that the PDF files mentioned in the header of this ticket are coming from one-help repository.

[jburel]

Moving to 5.1.0-m1

[bpindelski]

This is most likely caused by the PDF exceeding a size limitation - trying to upload cls-public.pdf, which is 3.1 MB in size, results in an HTTP 413 Request entity too large return code. I guess the web client (or Django) limit the size of uploaded PDF files.

[atarkowska]

@bpindelski nginx config is missing

    sendfile on;
    send_timeout 60s;
    client_max_body_size 0;

[bpindelski]

@atarkowska: I see. Is it worth adding that part to the nginx template? And also checking if the Apache template will need similar settings?

[atarkowska]

it is in http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero5-staging/sysadmins/unix/install-web.html#nginx-configuration

[bpindelski]

Closing, since this was a configuration issue and not a fault in the code.