[H-GEN] Apache httpd.conf

[David Harrison]

To the best of my knowledge Apache 1.3.x won't let users download files 
of > ~2.1GB - they'll just get a 'forbidden' error. At a guess I'd say 
that it won't list files that it can't send.

You can recompile Apache v1.3.x 
with -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and it will let you 
serve the files, but the Content-Length will be unknown (at least it was 
the last version of 1.3.x I tried - not sure if this has been fixed in 
recent versions).

If you're using Apache v2.x I'm pretty sure as of the latest version is 
properly supports files of > ~2.1GB, as long as you compile with the 
above directives (for some reason my notes say with Apache v2 you need 
to export them as environment variables before starting the compile - 
eg,
export CPPFLAGS="-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"

-- david


---- Original Message ----
From: "Kelvin Heng" <kelvinheng at hotmail.com>
To: <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 1:46 PM
Subject: [H-GEN] Apache httpd.conf

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> Hi friends,
> May I know if you guys know how to configure the apache httpd.conf to
> allow listing of file which is 5.6GB size?
>
> I am able to create the list for all files in the same directory, but
> when I realised that the file that is 5.6GB is not listed.
>
> Could this be some bugs with apache httpd?
>
> Regards,
> Kelvin Heng
>
>
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