# Unable to deploy changes on node red

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/unable-to-deploy-changes-on-node-red/97842>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** function-node, dashboard-2\
**Created:** [27 June 2025 16:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/unable-to-deploy-changes-on-node-red/97842 "2025-06-27T16:36:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Desmond-Zeh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/desmond-zeh/32/92216_2.png) [@Desmond-Zeh](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Desmond-Zeh)\
**Post date:** [27 June 2025 16:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/unable-to-deploy-changes-on-node-red/97842/1 "2025-06-27T16:36:23Z")

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Hello Team!  
I am facing difficulties deploying changes made to my project on node-red.  
Anytime I try to deploy the changes made, the following error message appears in the cmd prompt and blocks the deploy from occurring.  
`PayloadTooLargeError: request entity too large at readStream (C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\raw-body\index.js:163:17) at getRawBody (C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\raw-body\index.js:116:12) at read (C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\body-parser\lib\read.js:79:3) at jsonParser (C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\body-parser\lib\types\json.js:138:5) at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\express\lib\router\layer.js:95:5) at trim_prefix (C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\express\lib\router\index.js:328:13) at C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\express\lib\router\index.js:286:9 at Function.process_params (C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\express\lib\router\index.js:346:12) at next (C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\express\lib\router\index.js:280:10) at cors (C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\cors\lib\index.js:188:7) at C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\cors\lib\index.js:224:17 at originCallback (C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\cors\lib\index.js:214:15) at C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\cors\lib\index.js:219:13 at optionsCallback (C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\cors\lib\index.js:199:9) at corsMiddleware (C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\cors\lib\index.js:204:7) at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\express\lib\router\layer.js:95:5) at trim_prefix (C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\express\lib\router\index.js:328:13) at C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\express\lib\router\index.js:286:9 at Function.process_params (C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\express\lib\router\index.js:346:12) at next (C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\express\lib\router\index.js:280:10) at expressInit (C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\express\lib\middleware\init.js:40:5) at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (C:\Users\desmond\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-red\node_modules\express\lib\router\layer.js:95:5)`  
I don't know if it has to do with the size of my project which is about 6mb.  
Any help on this will be highly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![Steve-Mcl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/steve-mcl/32/4826_2.png) [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)\
**Post date:** [27 June 2025 17:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/unable-to-deploy-changes-on-node-red/97842/2 "2025-06-27T17:40:13Z")

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> [@Desmond-Zeh](#):
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> PayloadTooLargeError: request entity too large

Your flows are too large. You should probably start considering to scale out with additional node-red instances. However, if you must, you can bypass the limit.

- [Deploy failed - PayloadTooLargeError: request entity too large - #6 by Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/deploy-failed-payloadtoolargeerror-request-entity-too-large/45202/6)
- [PayloadTooLargeError at deploy - #5 by skipware](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/payloadtoolargeerror-at-deploy/67053/5)

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**Author:** ![Desmond-Zeh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/desmond-zeh/32/92216_2.png) [@Desmond-Zeh](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Desmond-Zeh)\
**Post date:** [27 June 2025 19:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/unable-to-deploy-changes-on-node-red/97842/3 "2025-06-27T19:13:34Z")

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Thank you Steve!  
I’m good to go

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [11 July 2025 19:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/unable-to-deploy-changes-on-node-red/97842/4 "2025-07-11T19:14:22Z")

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