File size exceeds default size during uploading

Question

I am working in ASP.NET MVC. I am trying to upload a file, which is successful in case of small files, but if file size is large, I get following error.

Maximum request length exceeded.

Following is my form.

@using (@Html.BeginForm("Method","Controller",FormMethod.Post,new{enctype="multipart/form-data"}))
{
   <input type="file" name="file" id="file"/>
   <input type="submit" value="Submit"/>
}

Following is controller method.

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Method(HttpFileBase file)
{
    string path = System.IO.Path.Combine(Server.MapPath("~/Files"), file.FileName);

    file.SaveAs(path);
}

Same code works fine when file is small size i.e. of 1-2Mb, but i am trying to upload a file of 19Mb which is not being uploaded. I don't know how to specify file length and how to remove above mentioned error. Please help me.

possible duplicate of [Maximum request length exceeded](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3853767/maximum-request-length-exceeded) — Erik Philips, May 06 '13 at 16:33

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 06 '13 at 16:22

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In your web.config under System.Web node specify

<httpRuntime maxRequestLength="NNN" />

Where NNN is file-size in Kbytes

answered May 06 '13 at 16:22

Yuriy Galanter

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I found error in following code, when it is requested from browser.' ' – Fakhar uz Zaman May 06 '13 at 16:32
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@FakharuzZaman : you are doing it wrong . there should be only one httpRuntime node there . like – mohsen dorparasti May 06 '13 at 16:41

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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in your web.config file under system.web add these settings :

<system.web>
  ....
   <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="XXXX" executionTimeout="XXXX" />
  ....
</system.web>

maxRequestLength is in kb and executionTimeout in minute . you should set executionTimeout to give it enough time to upload file .

check this for more details .

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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answered May 06 '13 at 16:23

mohsen dorparasti

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 06 '13 at 16:54

You can change the max upload size using the web.config as suggested here, but I'd recommend binding that change to the exact URL you expect it to be uploaded to. For example, this changes the max upload size to 50MB.

<location path="Documents/Upload">
  <system.web>
    <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="51200" />
  </system.web>
</location>

File size exceeds default size during uploading

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