Hi there, I need a solution to supply big files over a webserver. Those should be downloaded auth-protected (login/passwd) over http and php. Until now I used mod_xsendfile (click) with Apache 2.2 to do this. This works like a charm tested with maxsize of 100MB. It's a small extension for apache that get's active by a header-manipulation (via php) after the file was requested by the user... Now it's necessary to cover files up to 5 GB. Has somebody experience with those large files? I don't have anyone so it's hard for me to estimate this. Perhaps it's better to bet on Lighty webserver instead using apache? thx for help. melchior
I don't think it's a problem to serve large files with a normal Apache or Lighttpd installation (without any extra modules). When you download a Linux DVD or CD iso file, the isos are also being served by a normal Apache or Lighttpd.
hi falko, thx for reply. top forum. top support. and top ISPCONFIG. I love it! My doubts to provide a large file came up that the file gets served dynamic by php. Some time ago I tried to this to supply a 100MB file. When I clicked on download the download started extremely delayed. I think this happened because php was loading the whole file in memory before it began to start it. I tested a workaround I read on php.net to supply the file as chunked file segmemts but it didn't solved the delay at all. So at all I switched over to use mod_xsendfile for apache. And this works very great. And that's why I'm so afraid. If mod_xsendfile won't work with files upto 5 gb I'll have no chance to get it work with apache thx and best regards, marco
If you want to use PHP for processing the download, you can find some classes here: http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/ We're using one of these classes to process our VM downloads, but I don't remember the name or link of the class...
