How to Fix the "RPC failed; HTTP 413 curl 22" Error in Nginx

Calendar 12 October 2018
Development
Nginx, Troubleshooting, How-To, Git

Understanding the Issue: ‘RPC failed; HTTP 413 curl 22’#

If you’ve stumbled upon the error message “RPC failed; HTTP 413 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 413 Request Entity Too Large,” you’re probably trying to push a rather hefty commit over HTTP to your server running Nginx. This error means that the size of the request you’re trying to send exceeds the limit that the server is willing to accept. So, how do you fix it?