Apache error 413 Payload Too Large with mod_security
Issue
The 413 Payload Too Large error in Apache with mod_security often happens in two places:
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Publishing a content view with large repositories fails with below error:
RestClient::PayloadTooLarge: 413 Payload Too Large Backtrace: /opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/rest-client-2.0.1/lib/restclient/abstract_response.rb:223:in `exception_with_response' /opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/rest-client-2.0.1/lib/restclient/abstract_response.rb:103:in `return!' /opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/runcible-2.8.1/lib/runcible/base.rb:93:in `block in get_response' /opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/rest-client-2.0.1/lib/restclient/request.rb:807:in `process_result' -
Package profile upload task fails on the hosts:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/cache.py", line 176, in update_check
self._sync_with_server(uep, consumer_uuid)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/cache.py", line 515, in _sync_with_server
_combined_profile
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/rhsm/connection.py", line 1280, in updateCombinedProfile
return self.conn.request_put(method, profile)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/rhsm/connection.py", line 915, in request_put
return self._request("PUT", method, params, headers=headers)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/rhsm/connection.py", line 932, in _request
info=info, headers=headers, cert_key_pairs=cert_key_pairs)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/rhsm/connection.py", line 791, in _request
self.validateResponse(result, request_type, handler)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/rhsm/connection.py", line 879, in validateResponse
handler=handler)
rhsm.connection.ForbiddenException: Server error attempting a PUT to /rhsm/consumers/xxx/profiles returned status 403
and the matching error in the httpd error log on Satellite:
413 Payload Too Large: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>413 Request Entity Too Large</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Request Entity Too Large</h1>
The requested resource<br />/pulp/api/v2/consumers/xxxx/profiles/<br />
does not allow request data with POST requests, or the amount of data provided in
the request exceeds the capacity limit.
</body></html>
Environment
- Red Hat Satellite 6.x
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