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Hello! Can anybody help me with this issue. Every time I clicked a very large file in a browser, say a matroska video or even an ISO file with a size greater than 3Gb, The Hiawatha server on my machine will issue a 404 error or "not found". I am sure the index.html has all valid links to all files because other files including images and videos with a smaller file size is displayed properly. By the way, I am using Hiawatha in a local network to serve local files. Thanks in advance to anyone who can guide me to solve this problem.

I have v10.5 installed on my local mac development machine and I was able to download a 7GB file with no problems.

Could it be an OS issue? What OS are you using to run Hiawatha?

I am using Slax Linux. I also tried if permission settings matters, the result is still the same.

By the way, since there are no packages for hiawatha specific to slax. The binary I am using is a compiled one from the source. Thanks for responding.

Could it be an issue with the filename or the file access rights instead of the size?

I tried that also by setting file access rights so that anybody can access. The file system I am using though is ext3. What troubles me though is that if I try renaming other files with lesser file size to that one which is not found(has 3BG size), there is no problem I encountered. Tested also other files like ISO (4Gb), MP4 1080 movie (4Gb), and IMG (5Gb), and it is confirmed.

to Joe Schmoe... If you wont mind, can you share to me your hiawatha.conf? It might help a lot. Thanks.

Hello Hugo,

I found a similar problem in this link but I am not using varnish or any reverse proxy.

In this other link I think is the nearest to my issue that hasn't been fixed yet.

My system uses 32-bit SLAX Linux and HIAWATHA version 10.5

I think the 32-bit OS causes this issue. Try testing a 64-bit OS.

Dave Phillipines, it was pretty much the default installed configuration.

Hello Hugo,

Yes, it is confirmed that 32-bit OS is the issue. I tested it with a 64-bit slax and a 64-bit machine at home to validate. Too bad though that I can not change the machines in the network (government issue) but still requires me to share really big files.

I really like hiawatha with its simplicity and robustness. If only I could ask a request from you as an author of that program to make it work on 32-bit environment capable of serving large files. For now I will just hope for that. Until then, I settled with lighttpd to solve my server issues.

Thank you and more power to you.

Add the following line to config.h.in (for example somewhere in the Settings section) and recompile Hiawatha.

#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64

Hello Hugo,

You solved my problem with just a single line added to config.h.in. Followed your instruction and recompiled hiawatha.
Server now is working fine. I no longer have issue with file size limit.

Already switched back to hiawatha on our local network.

A million thanks to you.