[svlug] Hosting Large Files via HTTP

[James Howard]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, William R Ward wrote:

> James Howard writes:
> >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.
> 
> What error occurs in your Apache error_log file?  That should shed
> some light on the reason.
> 
> --Bill.
> 

Thanks Bill,

The text of the specific error message (coupled with another member's 
hint) indeed pointed me in the right direction. 

-Jim