Request object error
I came across an interesting problem today that I wanted to document in case I hit it again and provide some notes in the hope that this helps somebody else.
An ASP (not .net) forum that I'm responsible had the following error:
Request object error 'ASP 0104 :80004005'
Operation not Allowed
/forum/inc_UploadDefault.asp, line 4
The message wasn't that useful but I finally tracked down that it came from trying to upload a file to the ASP forum that was larger than 200 Kb.
It turns out that IIS 6.0 prevents the uploading of files larger than 200 Kb. This is not a big deal and I would expect there to be some sort of default limit.
What I did find unusual though were the steps that I had to go through to increase this limit.
- Stop "IIS Admin Service" - this also stopped "Word Wide Web Publishing Service", "FTP Publishing Service", and "HTTP SSL"
- Edit the C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\MetaBase.xml file and find the entry that read AspMaxRequestEntityAllowed="204800" and change this to read a larger value.
- Save the file.
- Restart the 4 services.
I would have expected to be able to change this entry through an interface but it appeared that I had to stop the sites to do this. If anybody knows a more elegant way to do this then please post a comment.