[ZendTo] Re: Large uploads not working on 64-bit Centos VM

Wed Sep 7 17:07:09 BST 2011

Ah, didn't appreciate your problem only affected files greater than 2GB.
In that case, it's a libphp5.so problem. You need to make sure your PHP 
is built able to cope with large files, instructions on
     http://zend.to/phpfix.php

Jules.

On 07/09/2011 14:16, Chris Barber wrote:
>
> Richard, yes I am able to upload files smaller than 2 GB, no problem. 
> There is plenty of free disk space yes.
>
> -Chris
>
> *From:*zendto-bounces at zend.to [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] *On 
> Behalf Of *ROGERS Richard
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 06, 2011 12:06 PM
> *To:* 'ZendTo Users'
> *Subject:* [ZendTo] Re: Large uploads not working on 64-bit Centos VM
>
> Chris -- are you able to upload smaller files? -- just wondering as 
> your earlier comment was along the lines of "still can't upload large 
> files". If you can, that seems to me to point away from permissions 
> (is there a disk space issue??!)
>
> Jules -- I discovered an apparent mismatch this afternoon between the 
> identities used by clamd and freshclam on the CentOS VM, which seemed 
> to be preventing freshclam from downloading and installing updates. 
> You may want to check this before the next VM release. (I got round it 
> by making them use the same uid but I don't know if that is the 
> "official" way to do it).
>
> Regards
>
> Richard
>
> --
>
> Richard Rogers
>
> Principal IT Officer, Client Technology and Applications
>
> Information Services, Staffordshire University
>
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>
> *From:*zendto-bounces at zend.to <mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to> 
> [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] 
> <mailto:[mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to]> *On Behalf Of *Jules
> *Sent:* 06 September 2011 16:56
> *To:* ZendTo Users
> *Subject:* [ZendTo] Re: Large uploads not working on 64-bit Centos VM
>
> It's referring to the "incoming" directory permissions. If it is using 
> disk space then it's probably when it tries to set the permissions at 
> the end of the upload when it closes the file it uploaded. It's 
> unlikely to be related to ClamAV.
>
> But you can try disabling the virus scanning. You can usually get away 
> with setting the virus scanner setting in preferences.php to
>     'clamdscan' => '/bin/true',
> and then give it another try.
> Clamd and clamdscan are governed by App-Armor (or SELinux, same thing, 
> different name). The docs on the website tell you how to configure 
> SELinux to let clamd and clamdscan work.
>
>
> Jules.
>
> On 06/09/2011 14:35, Chris Barber wrote:
>
> Well I added these permissions but I'm getting the same error. I even 
> tried setting the folder to 777 just to see if that would work. The 
> folder owner is apache however, but all the rest of the folders have 
> that owner so I thought that was correct?
>
> If I watch the free disk space during the transfer, I see it slowly 
> shrinking until the error hits, then the free space goes back to what 
> it was previously. This tells me that the webserver is able to write 
> there. Perhaps clamav is having the problem? But I thought 777 would 
> allow anyone to use files in that dir?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
> *From:*zendto-bounces at zend.to <mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to> 
> [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] *On Behalf Of *Jules
> *Sent:* Monday, September 05, 2011 5:27 PM
> *To:* ZendTo Users
> *Subject:* [ZendTo] Re: Large uploads not working on 64-bit Centos VM
>
> /var/zendto/incoming.
> This needs to be writable by the web server user, and scannable by clamd.
>
> On a RedHat 6 box this should look like this:
>
> [sysjkf at isol-zendto zendto]$ ls -al /var/zendto
> total 2356
> drwxrwxr-x.   6 root   apache    4096 Feb 24  2011 .
> drwxr-xr-x.  24 root   root      4096 Feb 24  2011 ..
> drwxr-xr-x. 275 apache apache   12288 Sep  5 17:59 dropoffs
> drwxr-xr-x.   2 apache apache    4096 Sep  5 17:59 incoming
> drwxr-xr-x.   2 apache apache    4096 Jul 20 22:09 rrd
> -rw-rw-r--.   1 apache apache 2361233 Sep  5 21:16 zendto.log
>
> On a Ubuntu box or a CentOS box the user and group of the files will 
> be different, may be "www-data" or "httpd" instead of "apache". But 
> the permissions should look like the above.
>
> Jules.
>
> On 05/09/2011 16:19, Chris Barber wrote:
>
> Thanks. I am still not able to upload files larger than 2 GB however. 
> The error message has changed to:
>
> Upload Error
>
> There was an error while uploading 'filename.iso'. The server's 
> temporary folder is misconfigured.
>
> What temp folder is this referring to?
>
> Thanks,
>
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> *From:*zendto-bounces at zend.to <mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to> 
> [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] *On Behalf Of *Jules
> *Sent:* Monday, September 05, 2011 4:13 AM
> *To:* ZendTo Users
> *Subject:* [ZendTo] Re: Large uploads not working on 64-bit Centos VM
>
> Copy in that module file, make sure it has exactly the same ownership 
> and permissions as the version that was there before (I would save 
> your old one just in case), and then
>     service httpd restart
> and you should be up and running.
>
> Cheers!
> Jules.
>
> P.S. Donations for quick responses are always welcome! :-)
>
> On 05/09/2011 02:56, Chris Barber wrote:
>
> Jules,
>
> Wow thank you for the quick work!
>
> Not to sound too noobish, but do I just need to copy in this module file?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
> *From:*zendto-bounces at zend.to <mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to> 
> [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] *On Behalf Of *Jules
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 04, 2011 4:59 PM
> *To:* ZendTo Users
> *Subject:* [ZendTo] Re: Large uploads not working on 64-bit Centos VM
>
> Check the News on the zend.to home page, as I have posted a link to a 
> replacement
> /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/libphp5.so
> file there.
>
> Alternatively, I have posted a rebuild of the whole CentOS-x64 build 
> of ZendTo on the downloads page as well.
>
> I hope that solves your problem for you. :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Jules.
>
> Time for bed.
>
> On 04/09/2011 15:56, Chris Barber wrote:
>
> I'm not able to follow the instructions on zend.to/phpfix.php
>
> I get errors about every other command. Some I am able to work around 
> (I think) and others I can't figure out. For now I'll just wait I 
> guess cause I don't have time to spend 5 hours on this.
>
> If anyone else can try this, please do and report back.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
> *On Behalf Of *Chris Barber
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 04, 2011 10:42 AM
>
>
>
>
> Jules,
>
> The following link from http://zend.to/phpfix.php is broken. I did a 
> Google search but I'm finding a few items that look similar. Can you 
> provide and correct link?
>
> http://mirror.rackspace.com/ius/stable/Redhat/5.5/SRPMS/
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
> *On Behalf Of *Jules
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 04, 2011 5:45 AM
>
> I've found the solution to this one. In the most recent PHP revision, 
> they tweaked the layout of the code which caused the patching commands 
> on http://zend.to/phpfix.php to break, so it left an int behind that 
> it should have turned into a long.
>
> If you're running your own server (and haven't just taken my VM 
> distribution) then you need to rebuild the libphp5.so binary according 
> to the instructions on zend.to/phpfix.php which I fixed some time ago 
> when I first discovered the problem.
>
> If my VM distribution is also wrong, I will get that rebuilt as soon 
> as I can. Otherwise you can just follow the instructions on 
> http://zend.to/phpfix.php yourself to rebuild the binary.
>
> Note if you are running RedHat 6 or CentOS 6, you will need to follow 
> the link on that page to the RedHat 6 version of the instructions. 
> Unfortunately these are rather more long-winded due to RedHat failing 
> to ship a load of the libraries that are required to rebuild their own 
> binaries :-(
>
> Can you confirm the problem *does* exist on my own VM distribution for 
> CentOS 5?
>
> Jules.
>
> On 02/09/2011 15:52, Chris Barber wrote:
>
> Okay well I am still also NOT able to upload any files larger than 2 
> GB, no matter what browser I try. IE9 64 bit, nope. Chrome, nope. 
> Firefox, nope.
>
> I checked my PHP parameters and they also look fine as you indicated 
> below. I'm out of ideas at the moment....
>
> My setup is using the 64 bit CentOS prebuilt VM. Running in ESXi 4.x.
>
> Jules?
>
> -Chris
>
> *From:*zendto-bounces at zend.to <mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to> 
> [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] *On Behalf Of *Chris Barber
> *Sent:* Friday, September 02, 2011 10:36 AM
> *To:* ZendTo Users
> *Subject:* [ZendTo] Re: Large uploads not working on 64-bit Centos VM
>
> Hey Richard
>
> I'm going to test this on my CentOS 4.05 ZendTo install and let you 
> know if it works. Make sure you give IE9 64bit edition a try too.
>
> Will report back soon.
>
> -Chris
>
> *From:*zendto-bounces at zend.to <mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to> 
> [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] 
> <mailto:[mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to]> *On Behalf Of *ROGERS Richard
> *Sent:* Friday, September 02, 2011 6:44 AM
> *To:* 'zendto at zend.to <mailto:zendto at zend.to>'
> *Subject:* [ZendTo] Large uploads not working on 64-bit Centos VM
>
> Hi --
>
> I'm coming back to my upload problems with large (>2GB) files, having 
> updated to 4.03 on my 64 bit CentOS virtual machine (downloaded from 
> zend.to, so should have all the right underpinnings).
>
> Unfortunately this issue hasn't gone away with the upgrade (there's 
> always hope J). Here is a bit more info...
>
> Uploading via Chrome on Win7/64 bit, the upload appears to complete, 
> but at the end the following error is displayed:
>
> Description: cid:part1.03020404.00050502 at Zend.To
>
> A couple of things to note:
>
> 1.The size does not exceed the limits imposed -- I've set an upload 
> limit in the configuration of around 8GB -- when the upload starts 
> Chrome displays "2242.39MB/8864.37MB"
>
> 2.A simple PHP script reports its internal limits as follows:
>
> php_int_max 9223372036854775807
> php_int_size 8
>
> ...so that looks like a "proper" 64 bit PHP!
>
> 3.Note the "From" above -- it seems to have "forgotten" who I am -- 
> could this be linked? (or is it just not bothering after some other 
> failure -- possibly so as it sill displays "you are currently logged 
> in as /ROGERS Richard/" at the bottom of the screen). It correctly 
> displayed my details (from AD login) in the earlier screens.
>
> Relevant configuration files are attached.
>
> Any suggestions as to what the problem may be, or how to go about 
> tracking it down, are welcome!
>
> Thanks and regards
>
> Richard
>
> --
>
> Richard Rogers
>
> Principal IT Officer, Client Technology and Applications
>
> Information Services, Staffordshire University
>
> Tel. 01785-353785
>
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