Bizarre size limit in PHP Post

zeeple

Hi all, I am hoping someone can help me. I am trying to upload large amounts of text data via a perl script using LWP that posts the data to a very simple PHP script. It works quite well if the amount of data I am sending is small, if I send a larger amount it doesn't work at all. I have tried the following:

placing LimitRequestBody = 0 in the php.conf file
placing LimitRequestBody = 0 in the httpd.conf file

increasing max_upload_size to 8M in php.ini, and all this and I still seem to be running into a limit. Can anyone shed some light on this phenomenon? Here are some specs:

I am running php 5.0.2 on apache 2.0.52 on Fedora 4.

Thanks!

rincewind456

It may be that you need to change the max_execution_time in the php.ini, the default is 30 seconds.

zeeple

Good suggestion but no dice. I upped the execution limit to 600 seconds aand it still failed. The data I aam uploading is only about 612 k. I cannot imagine what is wrong..

zeeple

Here is the most frustrating part of all of this: I have set the error logging to ALL and I am not getting any useful info when the script fails. You'd think that either apache or php would log something regarding the script that is clearly failing. Can anyone suggest a way to increase the amount of error logging that php generates?

stolzyboy

you ARE restarting apache after config changes, correct?? lotsa peeps forget that 🙂

zeeple

Right on Stolzyboy that is a good thought. But I am very conscientious about restarting apache after every change. That is not the problem. Thanks for the contrib!! Any more suggestions?

stolzyboy

many times there are more than one php.ini's on a server, are you certain you are config'ing the correct one... just do a <?php phpinfo(); ?> page and it'll tell you which ini file you are using, just another thought that many people forget

stolzyboy

MarkR

Have you looked at the Apache error log? It should log if the request is too large.

Have you tried to debug the problem using a network analyser?

Perhaps your client or server has a transparent proxy / reverse proxy respectively installed by the provider, unbeknownst to you, which is artificially limiting the maximum POST size? Contact the respective network admins to find out.

Mark