Error: 403 Gateway Timeout when uploading file to IPFS

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#1

Hello,

As marked in the title, I got an 403 Gateway timeout when I try to upload a file to IPFS. According to the documentation the size limit is 50 Mb https://docs.moralis.io/moralis-dapp/web3-api/ipfs-storage-new#uploadfolder-new

I try to upload a file of 33Mb, it shouldn’t be a problem. File size much small (4/5Mb) are uploaded without any problems.

Is there anything I can do on my side?

#2

did you try multiple times?

#3

Yes. With different files smaller than 50Mb. All of them fail to upload except files that are smaller than 5/10Mb.

#4

I would expect it to work with more than 10MB

#5

you could try to use the normal IPFS upload functionality to upload bigger files, as in to not upload them in the same folder

#6

I tried with the normal IPFS upload, I no longer have a 403 error, however the url sends me to a file of only 95 bytes. I have the exact same problem as this person : Uploading GLTF or GLB Files

In my case I am trying to upload .zip files.

#7

how did you upload it to IPFS? that should happen only when you try to upload in the database and not on IPFS

#8 
public async UniTask<string> UploadFile(string filePath)
		{
			Debug.Log("[FileManager] Start to upload file: " + filePath);
			string filename = Path.GetFileName(filePath);
			string filteredName = Regex.Replace(filename, @"\s", "");

			byte[] data = await File.ReadAllBytesAsync(filePath);

			MoralisFile moralisFile = new MoralisFile(filteredName, data, GetMimeMap(Path.GetExtension(filePath)));
			await moralisFile.SaveAsync(Moralis.GetClient().ServiceHub);
			if (moralisFile.url == null)
			{
				Debug.LogError("[FileManager] Failed to save file to IPFS");
				return null;
			}

			Debug.Log("[FileManager] File saved successfully to IPFS:" + moralisFile.url.AbsoluteUri);
			return moralisFile.url.AbsoluteUri;
		}

I am using the Unity SDK

#9

you could try to use a cloud function:

Moralis.Cloud.define("uploadToIPFS", async (request) => {
  
  const result = await Moralis.Cloud.toIpfs({
  sourceType: 'object',
  source: request.params
});
return result;
  
});

something like this, but don’t use this syntax as it will work only with json objects

#10

probably this line saves it in the database and not on IPFS

#11

I was able to implement a working version with Cloud functions but … got the same issue as here : IPFS - Maximum call stack size exceeded

However in this post it is recommended to use the folder upload feature while waiting for a fix, we come back to the initial problem where I end up with a 403 Gateway error. To summarize, no solution to upload “large” files (>10mb) :frowning:

#12

I will end up uploading to a temporary server and retrieving the url and uploading via a cloud function with a sourceType “url” …

#13

I will end up uploading to a temporary server and retrieving the url and uploading via a cloud function with a sourceType “url” …

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#14

I remember now about that issue with maximum call stack