I'm having an issue downloading a 2.5GB file off my server. Apache gives a 403 Forbidden and I have checked the file permissions.

-rw-r--r-- 2.5G Sep 3 17:22

Is this a limiation of apache and is there anyone to get apache to work this a file this big? Its the VistaRC1 iso by the way, the last I dl'ed beta2, I resorted to using SCP instead.

Thanks in advance.

AFAIK, Apache does have issues with files greater than 2GB. I have yet to look into it, but we did have a similar issue when trying to move a large tarball from one server to another. Had to resort to rsync.

Yea, resorted to using Lightty.
Apache is a POS. I wish Plesk supported lighty.

last time i had to move a large file (bigger than 2 gb), i used scp

Same here. In fact we have to break up some game files on the Cortex update server so they're smaller than 2G.

On my home network I have apache serving up mp4 files containing movies ripped from DVD's, and they are usally around 2 - 4 GB big and Apache serves them up with no trouble at all.

According to reports at Apache.org this was a bug that was fixed.

If you can, get the headers when you try to connect and download the file, use curl if need be. Then look for the content-length field. If it has wrapped around (is negative) then it is not fixed.

http://www.theuniverses.com/vistadownload/...cfre_en_dvd.iso

GET /vistadownload/vista_5600.16384.060829-2230_x86fre_client-lr1cfre_en_dvd.iso HTTP/1.1
Host: www.theuniverses.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.x 403 Forbidden
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:55:59 GMT
Server: Server
Content-Length: 396
Keep-Alive: timeout=12, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
----------------------------------------------------------

That is from Live HTTP Headers plugin in FF.
It works fine with lighttpd though.

http://www.theuniverses.com:****/vista_****.iso

GET /vista****.iso HTTP/1.1
Host: www.theuniverses.com:****
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Etag: "103254325"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:22:44 GMT
Content-Length: 2709782528
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:59:18 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.11
----------------------------------------------------------

Did they fix this problem in Apache 2.2.x?



Well, a bunch of my friends wanted it and I don't exactly want to give them SSH access.

One option would be to break the file up with the 'split' command.

There is your reason. Apache's counter has wrapped around, as in it was at 2 GB + some other arbitrary amount, and then the file was even bigger.

As you can see, lighttpd does the right thing.



Does not wrap.

Now, just because it seems my file is a bit smaller than yours, I have decided why not take a real test and make a 4 GB file.



4 294 967 296 bytes = 4 gigabytes

According to Google.

Lightty still rocks though, but its good that Apache has addressed that issue.

Agreed. I was just merely providing evidence the issue has been fixed.