Maximum request length exceeded.

Question

I am getting the error Maximum request length exceeded when I am trying to upload a video in my site.

How do I fix this?

Answer 1

If you are using IIS for hosting your application, then the default upload file size is 4MB. To increase it, please use this below section in your web.config -

<configuration>     <system.web>         <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="1048576" />     </system.web> </configuration> 

For IIS7 and above, you also need to add the lines below:

 <system.webServer>    <security>       <requestFiltering>          <requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="1073741824" />       </requestFiltering>    </security>  </system.webServer> 

Note:

• maxRequestLength is measured in kilobytes
• maxAllowedContentLength is measured in bytes

which is why the values differ in this config example. (Both are equivalent to 1 GB.)