general/5974: The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server.

[John Salinas <js...@eden2.net>]

>Number:         5974
>Category:       general
>Synopsis:       The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          support
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Apr 09 13:10:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     jsalinas@eden2.net
>Release:        1.3.9
>Organization:
apache
>Environment:
uname -a Linux garden.eden2.net 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:40:35 EDT 1999 i686 unknown

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/spec
>Description:
When I try to access a cgi-bin or <A HREF> 3-4 levels down I receive
the following message:
Request-URI Too Large

The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server.

request failed: URI too long


Apache/1.3.9 Server at eden2.net Port 80

The log says: [Sun Apr  9 14:33:47 2000] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] request failed: URI too long
[Sun Apr  9 14:34:46 2000] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] request failed: URI too long
[Sun Apr  9 14:45:52 2000] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] request failed: URI too long

>How-To-Repeat:
www.eden2.net 
->check mail ->foward ->send 
>Fix:
how can I increase the max length of the URI?
>Release-Note:
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