[svlug] Hosting Large Files via HTTP

[James Howard]

Basically, I'm hosting some very large files ( > 1GB) on an Apache 2.0
server.  Get requests for those files are met with a 403 'Forbidden'.  
Similarly, the files don't appear to autoindex, in fact, the presence of
such a file in a particular directory will supress autoindexing of all
files in the directory.

Does this sound familar to anyone? Is this a limitation of the protocol? 
Of apache? My kernel?

The server error makes some sense; that being, the user (in my case 
'apache') doesn't have permission to read files larger than a certain 
size. However, I've never heard of that type of access restriction. Has 
anyone encountered this sort of issue?