help! post method doesnt work well...

Anon

hello.

i dont know if i am at the right place here - i have the following problem:

i am using php/mysql for handling large a large database.

this works well for the output, but as soon as it comes to the input, problems occur: i built a script (html form) for entering data which is sent to php via method=POST.

GET didnt work at all as GET is limited in length i think, but now it seems like POST was limited in some way, too: as soon as i am posting a large amount of text (there are about 20-25 textareas in the form), the server just seems to hang up... nothing happens after i click submit...... the processing script doesnt even start, so it's not the mysql-insert-query that freezes, somehow the data doesnt reach the server... or it is not processed.

i dont know how POST-data is processed exactly... is there maybe any configuration i must change? i have root on the server, so that will be np, i am using redhat-linux, php4, mysql, apache.

i could imagine some timeout happens before all the data is submitted or there is a limit or anything, but i dont know where to look...

thanks for your help!

regards,
anselm nehls

rrijnders

Well, 20-25 <i>fields</i> in the form should not be a problem, but if they are all textarea fields the amount of text might be. You can test to see if this is the case by simply leaving most of the fields blank and submitting the form. If it gets to your script (although your script may return an error for the blank fields) then you know the problem is with the amount of text.

-- Rich

Anon

thanks, but i already tried that and it turned out it really WAS the amount of text... but still i needed that much input there.

but anyways, the same thing happened now that happens everytime i post a question to some help forum... an hour later i solve the problem myself, even if i tried for days before without succeeding.. 😉

this time the problem was as plain simple as my /var volume was full.... totally stuffed with backup-tars... apache simply didnt have enough diskspace to process the post data... stupid me 🙂 but it wasnt until i tried to create a new database for testing purposes that i found out about that.....

so if someone get mysql-error no. 28, it's your disk.. 😉

thanks alot anyway 🙂

anselm