Apache 2.x serving large files

KingDaveRa · n00b Joined: 31 May 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Bucks, UK

Hi all

I've got a server running a local mirror of a sort, full of ISOs for numerous linux distros and various other bits and bobs relevant to us. For some reason, apache seems to have some sort of wierd file size limit hardcoded in - files over a certain size (I think it might be 2Gb) are not served. This includes a few DVD images. The files don't even show up in file listings, and if you try and download them directly apache won't do it.

Is there a directive I'm missing? LimitRequestBody 0 doesn't work (it has a limit of 2Gb it would seem). Anybody else managed it? I've seen references to patches, but these are hard to impliment with portage.

badchien · Guru Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 415 Location: doghouse

I've never tried serving anything that large, but I just read in the release notes for the recently released Apache 2.2.0 that >2GB file support is one of the new features. It doesn't look like it is in portage yet, so you'll have to compile yourself.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/new_features_2_2.html

KingDaveRa · n00b Joined: 31 May 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Bucks, UK

Makes me wonder how places like www.mirrorservice.org do it. I might email their admins and ask.

Thanks for the reply.

badchien · Guru Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 415 Location: doghouse

Apparently the limitation applies to 32 bit systems. They appear to be running Solaris, so maybe they are using 64 bit Sun hardware.

KingDaveRa · n00b Joined: 31 May 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Bucks, UK

Ahhh, that sounds like a good explanation.

Damn shame. Suppose I'll have to wait then.

tuxmin · l33t Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 838 Location: Heidelberg

There used to be LFS support in Gentoo's apache2. But the later ebuilds have this message in it: