Posted by Todd Cary on 02/09/05 01:08

Richard -

It turned out that the following was missing from Apache's httpd.conf file:

<Files *.php>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
LimitRequestBody 5000000
</Files>

Not sure what that does or where I should have read about it, but I did
find that in an email I got with Google.

Todd

Richard Lynch wrote:
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> Todd Cary wrote:
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>>I am using php 4 and Apache 1.3 on a RH 9 box.
>>
>>upload_max_filesize is set to 5M
>>
>>post_max_size is set to 8M
>>
>>MAX_FILE_SIZE in the HTML upload page is set to 5000000
>>
>>I get the error "The document contains no data" with any file over 500 KB.
>>
>>What is creating the error?
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> Are you sure the HTML one isn't 500000?... :-)
>
> Also double-check your settings in <?php phpinfo();?> to be sure that the
> php.ini you changed is the one PHP reads...
>
> Actually, though, you shouldn't get "The document contains no data" in any
> of these, unless your BROWSER is getting tired of waiting for a response
> from the server.
>
> The PHP script should still be invoked, and it should be able to detect
> the over-sized file uploaded, and it should print some kind of error
> message about that.
>
> It's quite possible your script does absolutely NOTHING when the file is
> over-sized, and then it prints nothing out, and so the document is
> completely empty, and you get that message.
>
> Review the PHP you wrote and see what you did for an over-sized check on
> the file uploaded, or any other kind of upload error. Are you printing
> SOMETHING out in that case?
>

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