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[EP-tech] Re: File Size limit

From: Daniel Bird <dbird AT sgul.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:53:54 +0000


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On 12/03/2010 12:19, Daniel Bird wrote:
> Hi there,
> We've been running eprints for a while now, without issue however we
> seem to be hitting a POST size limit within Eprints/Apache and see the
> following error in IE.
>
> Request Entity Too Large
> The requested resource
> /secure/cgi/users/home
> does not allow request data with POST requests, or the amount of data
> provided in the request exceeds the capacity limit.
>
>
> The limit seems to be around the 100Mb mark from various tests, but I
> cant for the life of me see where this limit would be set (Eprints cgi
> or apache?) : I've read the Wiki and searched via Google etc but have
> hit a brick wall.
>
> Does anyone have an idea of how to fix this?
>    
Sorry to reply to my own post, bad form I know. However, I've found my 
solution

This was set in httpd.conf
LimitRequestBody 152428800

Which was the limiting factor; I've now increased and all is well

Cheers

Dan

> Apache: 2.2.3
> CentOS5.4 i386
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