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[Tornoci Laszlo <address@concealed>]

Hi,

On 09/27/2011 09:18 AM, Matt Taggart wrote:
> Hi Laszlo,
>
> > I have a dedicated sympa server (6.1.7 on a fully updated RHEL 6.1), and
> > whenever I try to upload a file larger than 100KB to the shared folders,
> > I get a 500 Internal Server Error response. If I try to upload any file
> > smaller then 100K, everything works fine. The webserver logs are not
> > usable, they are filled with lines like:
> > mod_fcgid: stderr: Use of uninitialized value $_[1] in sprintf at
> > /usr/lib64/perl5/Sys/Syslog.pm line 365.
> >
> > Google tells me this is a known sympa bug (although already fixed in
> > 6.1.7?!)
> >
> > I've checked my apache conf files for LimitRequestBody (I had none), I
> > actually set it to zero (=unlimited upload allowed), but this won't help.
>
> You might be running into the same thing we hit recently...
>
> fcgi has a default limit on request size. The default (on Debian's version
> at least) is 128K. In our case we were seeing logs entries like this,
>
>     [Wed Aug 10 14:46:42 2011] [warn] [client 127.0.0.1] mod_fcgid: HTTP
>       request length 134552 (so far) exceeds MaxRequestLen (131072),
>       referer: https://xxx/www/d_read/listname/
>
> and we fixed it by doing this in fcgid.conf
>
>    <IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
>      AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
>      # 10MB should be enough, default is 128K
>      MaxRequestLen 10000000
>    </IfModule>


Thanks a lot, that fixed it!

                                Laszlo
> Your symptoms of only<100KB uploads working and it getting the 500 error
> code page are the same things we saw (but we didn't see that perl error,
> maybe it's unrelated?).
>
> I've been meaning to submit this as a documentation patch... :)
>
> HTH,