[opencms-dev] Maximal file upload size

[Alexander Kandzior]

> Is it only an HTTP bottleneck or a limitation?

It's a http bottleneck.
 
> The website I'm trying to load is 333MB and putting it in 
> /WEB-INF/export/modules returns tracebacks when I try to 
> upload it as a 
> module.  

You must not upload the content as a module but as a "Database import".
Place it in "/WEB-INF/export/" for this (not in the modules subfolder).

> I tried then creating a new module and am uploading 
> file to it 
> that are zipped and telling OpenCMS to unzip them as they're 
> uploaded. 
>  This seems to work for zips < 15MB, but largers ones give up with 
> tracebacks (below).

This is the http limitation.

> Is there an official way to import existing websites, large or small? 
>  It seems odd to me that OpenCMS would not have a utility for 
> importing 
> websites that already exist.  Perhaps I'm not finding it or there's 
> something missing from my .zip file of the website?

Use the Database import, not module import. 


Best Regards,
Alex.

Alexander Kandzior
Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts
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