Digital goods larger than 4mb

Will · Post by **Will** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:42 pm

We've got a downloadable pdf we want to sell that's 148 MB. The AC7 limit on downloadable files is 4MB.

Is there any way to get around this? If not, does anyone have recommendations on how we can deliver a PDF of this size for sale?

AbleMods · Post by **AbleMods** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:51 pm

Holy smokes that's the mother of all PDF files!!

Has to be a way around the file size limit in AC7, 4Mb is puny for todays world of software.

Post by **Shopping Cart Admin** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:04 pm

Hello,

That is the limit of upload via a web browser, not a download limit. FTP the file up and it will work fine.

NC Software · Post by **NC Software** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:49 pm

The max upload can be modified in the web.config, 4 MB is the default, but easily changed.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/librar ... s.71).aspx

You'll need a httpRuntime section and within maxRequestLength and executionTimeout, for example:

httpRuntime maxRequestLength="30720" executionTimeout="3600"

Will · Post by **Will** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:41 am

Great. Thanks. This forum is great. The pdf is an experiment. It's a 120 page ebook with lots of photos and diagrams. Right now we're selling them through Lulu.com, who obviously take a cut but we don't have to deal w/bandwidth overages.

NC Software · Post by **NC Software** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:52 am

For ESD, it is definitely better to FTP up and then link to the files within AC's admin. However, I was just pointing out the default limit is customizable, we use this for our web services as we do web service uploading such as a backup to web feature and this requires us to open up this limitation. Downloading is obviously N/A to this scenario.

Post by **Logan Rhodehamel** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:28 am

And just as FYI, we have improved the ESD download in AC7. The downloading of large files does not incur a huge memory drain as in early versions of AC55. Also downloads are resumable if they get cut off.

tonz · Post by **tonz** » Wed May 07, 2008 8:30 am

I might have not got the whole picture: I have uploaded my larger exes through ftp to app_data/digital goods. why can't I see them in the admin area? Do I have to do anything else?

Thanks in advance,

Tony

jmestep · Post by **jmestep** » Wed May 07, 2008 9:43 am

I had the same problem and experimented. In the admin area to manage the uploads, under where you have the browse box to upload, fill in the two text boxes below that with the name of your file and save.

tonz · Post by **tonz** » Thu May 08, 2008 7:12 am

Thanks Judy, worked.

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