Nginx is not accepting range of bytes

Question

I am using nginx to serve videos from the file system. I would like to enable range request.

Currently this is the result returned for my file

curl -I fileurl
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 06:41:41 GMT
Content-Type: video/mp4
Content-Length: 15603963
Last-Modified: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:02:26 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=300
Accept-Ranges: bytes

But if I send curl --header "Range: bytes=0-50" fileurl

the whole file is downloaded.

This is the server in nginx config:

server {
            listen 80;
            server_name myserver;
            error_log logs/myserver.error.log;
            access_log logs/myserver.access.log;

            root /srv/myserver;

            #add_header Accept-Ranges;
            add_header Accept-Ranges bytes;
    }

Do I have to enable anything else? How could I allow range requests for the files?

Solution 1

I was able to get range requests working after adding the following line to my nginx site config

    proxy_force_ranges on;

You can read more about it here

Solution 2

I have found it - its the option

max_ranges

It was max_ranges 0 at the bottom of the configuration.

Comments

[Alexis Wilke]

Only by default max_ranges is not supposed to be zero and you did not show that line in your question! In my case, I have max_ranges 100; and it still isn't doing it right.

[Marc]

Man I love you, I've been struggling to get range requests working on my nginx for hours, tried everything, only your hint worked.. Thanks a million.