Solving the Issue of Large Files Not Loading When Using Baota Reverse Proxy

To prevent loading or playback failures of large files, please disable the caching function in the Nginx configuration.

Earlier, while configuring video-on-demand services, I encountered a strange issue where large files often failed to load. After extensive troubleshooting, I discovered the root cause was Nginx’s default caching mechanism: it attempts to cache the entire remote file locally first, which can easily lead to timeouts or interruptions for very large files.

In /www/server/nginx/conf/proxy.conf or the corresponding website configuration file, please ensure Nginx caching is disabled. With default settings, when handling large files, Nginx will try to cache the complete file locally, which may cause file loading or playback abnormalities.

proxy_cache cache_one; # Remove this line
proxy_max_temp_file_size 0; # Add this line