Posted by Dan Trainor on 02/09/05 02:51

Todd Cary wrote:
> Dan -
>
> Keep in mind that the change I made was within Apache on my server - not
> in the php.ini file. The changes to the php.ini file are well
> documented and have been covered within messages on this NewNet.
>
> However, s I stated, I am not sure why that change needs to be
> made...more reading for me I am sure!
>
> Todd
>
> Dan Trainor wrote:
>
>> Todd Cary wrote:
>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Todd Cary wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> While we're touching base on this subject, I know that you don't know
>> much about this Todd, but does anyone else know where we can find more
>> information about making modifications to PHP's operations inline in a
>> configuration file such as this?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -dant
>
>

Todd -

I understand that, yes, which is why I'm more interested in changing
this on a per-virtualhost basis, specifically within Apache.

Thanks for keeping an eye out for me though.
-dant

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