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4/14/2007 4:55 PM
 

Is there a reliable way to allow large file uploads?  Perhaps a third party module?  I adjusted settings in my web.config settings and there just does not seem to be any reliability.  Sometimes I can upload files as large as 10 MB sometimes I can not even get a 1 MB file uploaded.  The real frustration is how the application just breaks down with no explanation to the end user.  Either the browser reports an application error or connection dropped.

I can attach very large files as gmail attachments.  I can upload 100 MB files onto YouTube but in 10 years I have not been able to upload a large file into IIS?  I would like cusotmers to be able to upload at least 50 MB.

Any helpful tips would be greatly appreciated.  I use Win 2003 server, it is my own machine.  So I can make adjustments to anything... App Pool, Metabase, whatever.  But I really need to be able to offer customers a reilable secure way to share files.  Dotnetnuke is great for securing them, but sucks for uploading... so far.

 
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5/25/2007 10:40 PM
 

 

 

Does anyone have an answer to this?  Everytime I try to upload any files of significant size, the upload times out on me or something.  Can anyone help?

Thanks.

 
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5/26/2007 1:25 AM
 

Along these same lines, I would like to know where to set the max file size in the repository?

Or is there another module I should be using for large file sizes?

Thanks

 
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5/26/2007 7:37 AM
 

there are no settings in the Repository that restrict upload size. Maximum upload size is defined in the web.config for the entire site.

Look in your web.config file and you'll see a section like this...

  <!-- allow large file uploads -->
  <httpRuntime useFullyQualifiedRedirectUrl="true" maxRequestLength="8192" requestLengthDiskThreshold="8192"/>

 The default values allow for a max of 8MB upload. There is also another parameter that indicates the time-out value. Since it's not set in the default web.config that ships with DotNetNuke, the IIS default of 90 seconds will apply.

So, to allow large uploads (let's say for example 50MB), you have to bump up the maxRequestLength value and add an executionTimeout value, like this...

  <!-- allow large file uploads -->
  <httpRuntime useFullyQualifiedRedirectUrl="true" maxRequestLength="51200" executionTimeout="300" requestLengthDiskThreshold="8192"/>

That would allow 50MB uploads and IIS would wait 5 minutes before timing out.

 
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5/26/2007 7:39 AM
 

There's also one other host-level setting that affects uploads, and that's disk space. When you create a portal, you can define a maximum total disk space for all user data. The Repository will check the size of the file that you are uploading and compare it to the remaining space on the portal to make sure you won't exceed any disk space limitations.

 
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