diff --git a/nginx/crawlab.conf b/nginx/crawlab.conf
index fe911819..36c9f2b1 100644
--- a/nginx/crawlab.conf
+++ b/nginx/crawlab.conf
@@ -13,5 +13,6 @@ server {
     location /api/ {
 	    rewrite		/api/(.*) /$1 break;
 	    proxy_pass	http://localhost:8000/;
+	    client_max_body_size 50m;
     }
 }