What causes svn error 413 Request Entity Too Large?

Question

On occasion I receive an error \"413 Request Entity Too Large\" while updating an svn repository. Once I receive this error, it continues every time I attempt to update the

Answer 1

Also, if you run mod_security, consider checking your SecRequestBodyLimit setting. Mine was set too low and was causing the problem.

Answer 2

Try to add the following configuration directives to your Apache configuration file:

LimitXMLRequestBody 8000000
LimitRequestBody 0

Answer 3

Made a short bash script to loop through the subdirectories, per mdh's answer:

for dir in *; do
    [[ -e $dir ]] || continue
    echo "Updating $dir"
    svn up $dir
done
svn up

Answer 4

If without access to the server, you can also select all the folders using ctrl+A and then right click to update all folders individually using tortoise svn etc. Essentially the same as @lucrussell's solution.

Answer 5

See also: RequestReadTimeout, which limits time to read headers and body http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_reqtimeout.html

Answer 6

I don't have access to my repo server (IT Managed, and its over the weekend). So what I found was that I could work around this issue by doing an svn update on subdirs until one wouldn't work. Then I descended into this dir until I stopped getting the 413 error. Then I could do an update at higher levels. Might not work for everyone but could help get through in an emergency