download limit in apache?

[RavenSoul_]

Hi,

I have a 4 giga tar.gz in my public_html dir. When I want to download the file, it gives a forbidden error. the permissions are set correct. Another tar.gz on this account is around 300mb, and is downloadable.

Is there a limit on downloading files in apache?

[RavenSoul_]

OK,

I splitted the file in chunks of 500mb:

Source:

dd if=b.tar.gz of=chunk1 bs=1MB count=500; 
dd if=b.tar.gz of=chunk2 bs=1MB count=500 skip=500; 
dd if=b.tar.gz of=chunk3 bs=1MB count=500 skip=1000; 
dd if=b.tar.gz of=chunk4 bs=1MB count=500 skip=1500; 
dd if=b.tar.gz of=chunk5 bs=1MB count=500 skip=2000; 
dd if=b.tar.gz of=chunk6 bs=1MB count=500 skip=2500; 
dd if=b.tar.gz of=chunk7 bs=1MB count=500 skip=3000

target:

wget http://url.tld/chunk1;
wget http://url.tld/chunk2;
wget http://url.tld/chunk3;
wget http://url.tld/chunk4;
wget http://url.tld/chunk5;
wget http://url.tld/chunk6;
wget http://url.tld/chunk7;

cat chunk1 chunk2 chunk3 chunk4 chunk5 chunk6 chunk7 > b.tar.gz

Solved.

Just wanna know: is there a limit?

[Patiek]

You won't be able to download anything over 2GBs due to limitations.

[Matsaki]

Wow, this was an old post. Things have happened since 1995. Is there any chance that this 2Gb limit will be updated in coming versions of cPanel? As I understand as a cPanel user I can't change this limit my self in "Apache Handlers".

[lijeeshsd]

Hello,

Apache 1.3 and 2.0 has this problem of 2GB file size limit. This problem has been fixed in Apache 2.2. So if you use Apache 2.2, this problem should not happen. You can upgrade Apache to 2.2 using Cpanel EasyApache.