When you get a 500 error in a webpage hosted on Debian Linux (6.0) with apache webserver and fastcgi, take a look into the apache error.log file. This can either be the global error.log or the error.log of the website where you got the error. If you find a error similar to this one:
[Fri Apr 10 15:18:05 2012] [warn] [client 192.168.0.55] mod_fcgid: HTTP request length 134926 (so far) exceeds MaxRequestLen (131072), referer: http://www.example.tld/administrator/index.php?option=com_installer
then the MaxRequestLen setting of mod_fccgid is too low. To fix that, edit the file /etc/apache2/mods-available/fcgid.conf
vi /etc/apache2/mods-available/fcgid.conf
and add or edit the line "MaxRequestLen 15728640" to set the Request Limit to 15MB. The resulting file should contain these settings:
AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
FcgidConnectTimeout 20
MaxRequestLen 15728640
Save the changes and restart apache:
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Correct me if I am wrong but..
I think you have a typo there, your actually bumping that to 150 meg?
You have an extra zero tagged onto that:
MaxRequestLen 157286400
It should be
MaxRequestLen 15728640
You’re right. I fixed that in the faq.
Lifesaver!!
it solved my problem. i couldnt upload more than 100kb with opencart…tnx!!!!!!
This also happens on CentOS release 6.2 (Final), I just experienced the same effect.
I had this problem uploading images using Cartweaver 4 on CentOS 6.3 with ISPConfig3.
fcgid.conf is located in:
/etc/httpd/conf.d
and of course to restart the web server you use:
service httpd restart
in this Linux distro
Solved the problem for me thanks…
thanks you !
it works great now 🙂
Thanks for this page, I fixed my site for being able to upload files to/via drupal, I kept on getting the error and had no clue but checking ./error.log gave me a string to google and pointed me here.
Thank you for share. I have just solved my problem!